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Musicology Today 2012 100 Years of Polish Musicology

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Łucjan Kamieński as an Ethnomusicologist and Man 105<br />

Figure 7.4 Linda Kamieńska, Łucjan’s wife<br />

own seat in the Castle, consisting <strong>of</strong> a reasonably large room and a small study, which<br />

is in fact the former pantry in the dining room <strong>of</strong> His Majesty the Crown Prince... The<br />

Department and the Senate also granted me, for the coming year, a phonograph with<br />

materials necessary to start a phonographic archive (I was supported in this request<br />

by ethnology and three chairs <strong>of</strong> linguistics), a sum <strong>of</strong> money for the photographs and<br />

diapositives for paleographic studies, as well as an assistant librarian and a teacher <strong>of</strong><br />

harmony and counterpoint — this post will be filled by Wacław Piotrowski. In other<br />

words: we are getting organised.<br />

While Kamieński was busy organising the Poznań musicology, he was also<br />

considered as the main candidate for a pr<strong>of</strong>essorship at Warsaw University,<br />

which is confirmed by this fragment <strong>of</strong> his letter to Chybiński <strong>of</strong> 12 th April<br />

1923:

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