SZYMANOWSKI Karol - From letters

"Karol Szymanowski is one of the most characteristically interesting figures in the history of Polish culture. His extraordinary intelligence, versatile erudition, fascinating circle of acquaintances and friends, and the times in which he had to live and create make for an extremely interesting conglomerate. It is difficult to consider Szymanowski's work in isolation from the historical, moral and biographical background, all the elements intertwine here in a bizarre, almost spider web. As Teresa Chylinska, the most prominent researcher of the composer's biography, notes, "no comprehensive, source monograph of the composer has been written to this day; but also the first to create one - in his letters - was himself." Szymanowski liked to write and undoubtedly "felt the pen." He had literary aspirations and was a successful journalist. Letters, however, were perhaps his greatest element, and he wrote them throughout his mature life - with their particular intensity in his last decade. Szymanowski attached great importance to his letters, probably feeling that they would one day be public property." -Culture.co.uk

Memoir-Literary Sources for the History of Polish Music, Volume V

Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, Warsaw 1958

Format: 200 x 125 mm, 530s.

Hardcover cloth binding, paper wrapper.

Nice condition, paper wrapper with tears and loss visible in photo.