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Ad Parnassum
Studies. Edited by
Luca Lévi Sala.
Paperback (Soft Cover).
Ad Parnassum Studies.
Classical. Books and
Journals. Ut Orpheus #APS
4. Published by Ut
Orpheus (UT.APS-4).
ISBN 9788881094677.
6.5 x 9.5
inches.
Essays
by Tomasz Baranowski,
Andrzej Chwalba, Stephen
Downes, Peter Franklin,
Stefan Keym, Ryszard D.
Golianek, Agata
Mierzejewska, Michael
Murphy, Jadwiga
Paja-Stach, Luca Sala,
Renata Suchowiejko, Emma
Sutton, Andrzej
Tuchowski, Alistair
Wightman, James L.
Zychowicz
In
this volume I aim to
examine the figure of
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz in
the broader sociocultural
context which fostered
his work. The attempt to
contextualize an immense
intellectual patrimony --
despite being restricted
to a tiny number of works
when compared to more
prolific authors,
especially in the context
of the xix and the xx
centuries -- is always a
complex and hazardous
task. My primary
intention in organizing
the volume has been to
explicate Karlowicz the
man as well as Karlowicz
the composer, against the
complex background of the
European
fin-de-siecle. The
various essays aim to
present the reader with
an exhaustive
reconstruction of
Karlowicz's intellectual
work. Karlowicz's oeuvre
offers a broad artistic
portrayal of Poland at
the end of the nineteenth
century as a
fast-evolving country,
politically divided and
filled with
contradictions. Hence the
necessity to investigate
the fin-de-siecle
context with its social
and historical
implications, showing the
influence of the European
cultural milieu on the
composer's poetics and on
his thought. We shall
examine the spectrum of
relationships and
affinities linking
Karlowicz's works to the
Polish cultural world (on
the wave of the rising
'autochthonous'
avant-garde movements)
and to the wider cultural
life pulsating beyond its
borders, with special
reference to German
Wagnerism and Symphonism.
Essentially, we are
striving to define the
uniqueness of his oeuvre,
which -- in relation to
the manifold influences
co-existing in Poland, an
insubstantial nation from
the political viewpoint
and divided along three
socio-cultural fronts --
could be defined as
distinctively Polish, yet
ultimately
European. (Luca
Sala).
Frank Chow
