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Witold Lutoslawski A Bio-Bibliography
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Stanislaw Bedkowski, Stanislaw Hrabia
ISBN: 0-313-25962-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-25962-3
344 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 11/30/2000
List Price: $112.95 (UK Sterling Price: £77.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • 2002 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research Best Research in the Field of Recorded Classical Music
Description: This volume in the Greenwood Press series, Bio-Bibliographies in Music, provides new details about the life and works of Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski. It includes a detailed catalogue of the composer's works and performances, including his film music, incidental music for the theatre, music for radio plays, and songs he composed under a pseudonym, as well as a bibliography, discography, and brief biographical sketch. His unique style was distinguished by an individual harmonic system controlled aleatory technique that he developed more fully during the 1960s and 1970s. The discography includes over 300 recordings and the bibliography includes writings the composer and a separate section for the writings about him, including concert and recording reviews, books, articles, dissertations, and interviews.

This research tool will appeal to Lutoslawski fans and to musicologists. Each section is cross-referenced throughout. An appendix provides an alphabetical list of all of the composer's works.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Biography
    Works and Performances
    Discography
    Bibliography. Part I: Writings by Witold Lutoslawski
    Bibliography. Part II: Writings about Witold Lutoslawski
    Appendix
    General Index
    Title Index
About the Author: STANISLAW BEDKOWSKI is Lecturer with the Department of Music at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

STANISLAW HRABIA is Music Librarian with the Department of Musicology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.
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