Warsaw autumn
The Warsaw Autumn (Pol .: Warszawska Jesień ) is the largest festival for contemporary music in Poland .
The festival is also the only one that has been able to claim an international reputation for decades, as it was the only festival in Europe to continuously present contemporary music from these countries, so the countless world premieres in over 50 years of festival history can be understood as a musical history of Eastern Europe .
The festival has taken place at the end of September since 1956 and lasts for 8 days. Although it was always subsidized by the state, it retained its artistic freedom in terms of content even during the Cold War . So it was not only possible to present new creations by Polish composers, but above all to bring the music of Western countries into the Eastern Bloc. In addition to the music of the 2nd Viennese School , western avant-garde composers could be heard, who caused a sensation at the Darmstadt Summer Courses and the Donaueschinger Musiktage . B. by Pierre Boulez , Luigi Nono , Bruno Maderna or John Cage . The internationality was also given from the eastern side, many Polish and Russian composers, who premiered at the Warsaw Autumn, soon experienced international careers, such as Krzysztof Penderecki , Witold Lutosławski , Tadeusz Baird or Alfred Schnittke , Edison Denissow and Sofia Gubaidulina .
The Polish composer Augustyn Bloch directed the festival himself for several years, and Tadeusz Wielecki , also a composer, has directed the Warsaw Autumn since 1999 .
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- ↑ Stockhausen in Warsaw in klassikinfo.de