Musicology Today 2012 100 Years of Polish Musicology

192 Contributors
Michał Piekarski is a graduate of the Institute of Musicology at the University
of Warsaw (2008) and East European Studies (2010). He has participated
in numerous international conferences on East European problems (Budapest,
Rzeszów, Warsaw, Vilnius) and co-organised Polish and Ukrainian concerts of
music by 19th- and 20th-century Polish composers from Lemberg (Lviv) and
Eastern Galicia. He is a PhD student at the Institute for the History of Science
(Polish Academy of Sciences)
Irena Poniatowska is a musicologist who worked until 2003 at the Institute of
Musicology, Warsaw University. In 1975–1985, Prof. Poniatowska chaired the
Academic Board of the Fryderyk Chopin Society, and went on to act as the Society’s
Vice-President until 1990. Since 1994 she has acted as the President of
the Association ‘Polish Chopin Academy’. Since 2001, she has chaired the Program
Board of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Poland, and she was Chair at
the Chopin Congresses in 1999 and 2010. She chaired also since 1988 the Congresses
‘Musica Antiqua Europae Orientalis’ in the Bydgoszcz Philharmonic.
With over 300 publications to her name, she has authored books (Beethoven’s
Piano Texture, 1972, The chronicle of musical events in Poland 1945–1974,
1974; The Piano Music and the Pianistic in the 19. C., 1991, The History and
Interpretation of Music 17.–19.C., II ed. 1995 (all books in Polish), Romanticism
Part 2A 1850–1900. Musical Output (Sutkowski Edition 2011 (polish
version 2010), many different editions and facsimile editions of Chopin’s works
(Preludes 1999, BN; also Sonata in B minor, 2005 and Preludes, 2010 NIFC [coedited
with Z. Chechlińska]; Etudes (6 etudes from Op. 10), 2007 and Allegro
de concert, 2008 NIFC). Her Chopin scholarship includes a 2005 booklet on the
composer co-authored with A. Morawińska (translated into 9 languages) as part
of a series: Composers and the Art of Their Time; Wokół recepcji i rezonansu
muzyki. Szkice chopinowskie [Music reception and resonance. Chopin sketches],
NIFC 2008; Chopin. Człowiek i jego muzyka [Chopin: the man and his music]
(Multico, album in Polish and English, 2009, in Polish and French, 2010). She
is also editor of the Chopin and his Critics. An Anthology (up to World War I),
which contains the critics in Poland, Russia, Germany, France and Great Britain,
also in polish version, NIFC 2011.
Zbigniew Skowron is professor at the Institute of Musicology, University of
Warsaw. He graduated in Polish philology and musicology with Zofia Lissa at
the University of Warsaw, and in music theory at the Academy of Music in