Danuta Gwizdalanka

Danuta Gwizdalanka

Danuta Gwizdalanka (* 1955 in Poznań ) is a Polish musicologist , author and member of the Association of Polish Composers .

Life

Danuta Gwizdalanka studied musicology and English at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 1990 she received her doctorate and defended her doctoral thesis on "Aspects of sound in Beethoven's string quartets".

From 1981 to 1991 she worked at the Teatr Wielki in Poznań and at the Feliks Nowowiejski Music Academy in Bydgoszcz. In 1995 she held a seminar on “Polish Music after 1945” at Michigan University in the USA.

In the eighties she began to deal with the topic of the ecology of music, including the translation of a fragment of R. Murray Schafer's book "Tuning of the World", and she also wrote a number of articles in the Polish music magazine "Ruch Muzyczny ". She introduced a previously missing gender concept into Polish music literature with the publication of her work Muzyka i płeć (Music and Gender, Cracow 2001).

Gwizdalanka is the author of the biographies of the composers Mieczysław Weinberg , Witold Lutosławski and Karol Szymanowski . She also wrote works on the social aspects of music culture, e.g. Muzyka i polityka (Music and Politics, Krakow 1999) and a chamber music guide. She is an author and publishes articles on the Internet platform MUGI - Music and Gender on the Internet .

She is married to the composer Krzysztof Meyer .

Publications (selection)

• Witold Lutoslawski: Ways to Mastery. (with Krzysztof Meyer). Translation by Christina Marie Hauptmeier. Peacock. Saarbrücken 2014. ISBN 978-3-89727-518-8 .
• The seducer. Karol Szymanowski and his music. Translated by Peter Oliver Loew . Harrasowitz. Wiesbaden 2017.
• One Hundred Years of Polish Music History , PWM. Kraków 2019
• The passenger. The composer Mieczysław Weinberg in the maelstrom of the twentieth century . Translated by Bernd Karwen, Harrasowitz Verlag 2020, ISBN 978-3-447-11409-7

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait of Danuta Gwizdalanka
2. ↑ author Danuta Gwizdalanka at PMW
3. ↑ MUGI - Music and Gender on the Internet