Eminent Polish musicologist dies
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
15.01.2019 01:00
Veteran Polish musicologist Mieczysław Tomaszewski, a prominent Chopin scholar, has died at the age of 97.
Prof. Mieczysław Tomaszewski, pictured in 2013. Photo: PAP/Jacek Bednarczyk
He passed away on Monday in Kraków, a city to which he was linked from 1952 onward and of which he was an honorary citizen.
Tomaszewski worked as an editor and subsequently director of the Polish Music Publishers in Kraków and was also a professor at the city’s Music Academy and at the Jagiellonian University.
An author of more than 20 books and over 250 scholarly papers published in Poland and abroad, he is credited with developing a method for the so-called integral interpretation of musical compositions.
His research interests focused on the music of the Romantic era and on Polish composers Karol Szymanowski and Krzysztof Penderecki, in addition to Chopin.
Tomaszewski’s honours included the Order of the White Eagle, the highest Polish state distinction.
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