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Overview
This volume in the Greenwood Press series, Bio-Bibliographies in Music, provides new details about the life and works of Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski. It includes a detailed catalogue of the composer's works and performances, including his film music, incidental music for the theatre, music for radio plays, and songs he composed under a pseudonym, as well as a bibliography, discography, and brief biographical sketch. His unique style was distinguished by an individual harmonic system controlled aleatory technique that he developed more fully during the 1960s and 1970s. The discography includes over 300 recordings and the bibliography includes writings the composer and a separate section for the writings about him, including concert and recording reviews, books, articles, dissertations, and interviews.
This research tool will appeal to Lutoslawski fans and to musicologists. Each section is cross-referenced throughout. An appendix provides an alphabetical list of all of the composer's works.
Synopsis
Explores Witold Lutoslawski's work and includes a catalogue of works and performances, bibliography, discography, and brief biographical sketch.
Booknews
The music of Polish composer Lutoslaoski (1913-94) has been growing more influential since the 1960s, and he is now commonly considered one the most important and respected artists of his century. Bedkowski and Hrabia (both musicology, Jagiellonian U., Krakow) offer a variety of reference material on him and his work. The biography provides pertinent facts of his life and career and comments on the development of his musical style. His works and performances are arranged chronologically by the date of composition. The discography includes recordings published under his pseudonym, Derwid. Annotated primary and secondary bibliographies follow, and an alphabetical list of works is appended. A title index augments the general index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)