Cultural significance of the 4th International Chopin Competition in the context of the native musical art recovery after World War II
Journal Title: Edukacja Muzyczna - Year 2020, Vol 15, Issue 15
Abstract
The article aims at summarizing different activities undertaken to organize and run the first post-war Chopin piano competition. It is an attempt to collect facts, accounts and memories concerning actions initiated by Polish music culture environment after the Second World War. The author focuses on a detailed description of the organization and proceedings of the 4th International Piano Competition, making use of information that has existed in independent sources so far. The article uses diaries, biographies, autobiographies, private notes, interviews with representatives of Polish culture, archive films and documentaries belonging to the Polish Film Chronicle. Press excepts were not used on purpose, as most press information was included in the aforesaid bibliography entries. The analyzed sources let us conclude that the organization of the first post-was Chopin piano competition in Warsaw was an event requiring both the engagement of all state institutions and personal contribution of musicians and music teachers. The author considers such a detailed historical-cultural account justified and necessary, especially in 2020, the 210th birth anniversary of Frederic Chopin, the year in which the 18th Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition was supposed to take place.
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Aleksandra Popiołek-Walicki https://orcid. org/0000-0002-6936-4721
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.16926/em.2020.15.08
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