Roman Palester and PWM Edition: Correspondence in Three Stages
Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska
Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4158-8109
Abstract
Roman Palester’s contacts with PWM Edition can be reconstructed based on correspondence which has survived as part of the composer’s legacy deposited at the Archives of Polish Composers, kept at the University of Warsaw Library. These are mostly letters from representatives of the publisher to the composer, and in some cases also copies or rough drafts of the composer’s own letters, which he preserved. This correspondence can be divided into three stages, which reflect the artist’s contacts with the Polish publisher in the context of changing political circumstances: 1) before his emigration was announced; 2) during the so-called political thaw following the Polish October (of 1956), and 3) in the last years of his life, when censorship of his name and works had been lifted. My paper discusses both the surviving correspondence and the main aspects of relations between Roman Palester and PWM Edition between 1947 and the composer’s death, in the context of the political situation in Poland.
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Roman Palester, PWM Edition, Polish composers’ correspondenceReferences
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Beata Bolesławska-LewandowskaInstitute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4158-8109
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