Musicology Today 2012 100 Years of Polish Musicology

46 Michał Piekarski
Figure 3.1
“Faculty.” The word used most frequently is “zakład” (faculty), e.g.: “on the
15 th day of last month [15 th February 1914] a Faculty of Music History was
opened at the K.u.K. University in Lvov” (Przegląd Muzyczny 1914). The term
“katedra” (chair) also appears, however (Łobaczewska 1927: 148). The Warsaw-based
periodical Muzyka stated in 1930 that in Lvov a “Musicological Institute”
had been established in 1912, and this name, though obviously used
in error, was repeated in several other sources. Also in the annual booklets
listing the lectures available at Lvov University, the terms are used inconsistently
(a faculty or an institute) (See Mazepa and Mazepa 2003 vol. 1: 259).
Elżbieta Ochwat also discussed this problem in her dissertation, suggesting
that the differences in terminology may result from the fact that musicology
as a research-and-teaching unit was modelled on the one-person German
chairs of musicology. Hence the use of the terms “zakład” and “katedra” as