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(A. Frączkiewicz, A. Rieger, M. Drobner, S. Śledziński, W. Mantel). Some of
Jachimecki’s students from the Jagiellonian University before 1939 (who did
not obtain degrees in Cracow) continued their musicological studies elsewhere
and were later involved in research and publication in Poland and
abroad (e.g. M. Grafczyńska, Z. Estreicher). Among his students, many continued
to work in the field of music, and some made important contributions
to the Polish or local music environment (e.g. J. Ekier, T. Szeligowski,
M. Cyrus-Sobolewski, Father W. Świerczek, J. Gablenz, L. Bursa, and J. Życzkowski).
Zdzisław Jachimecki and his students’ response to the question of who to
cater for: the “many” or “the chosen few” — was — we should cater for both
these groups. This decision seems still valid today, especially in view of the
new challenges facing musicology in the 21 st century, related to its subjectmatter,
its contexts, functions and the language of narration.
Works cited
Chybiński Adolf (1930), ‘Zadania historycznej muzykologii w Polsce’ [The Aims
of Historical Musicology in Poland], Muzyka No. 10 (20 th Oct.), pp. 587–595.
Dobrzańska-Fabiańska Zofia (2011), ‘Zdzisław Jachimecki’s ‘Wpływy włoskie w
muzyce polskiej” [Italian influences in Polish Music] (Cracow 1911) — an
Invitation to Study the 16 th -and17 th -century Reception of Italian Musical
Culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth”, a paper delivered at the
symposium entitled Central-Eastern Europe versus the Italian Musica Moderna.
Reception, Adaptation, Integration. International Musicological Conference on the
Occasion of the 400 th Anniversary of the Publication of Offertoria and Communiones
by Mikołaj Zieleński (Venice, 1611),Warsaw,October.