Bardzo polecamy najnowszą, długo (?) wyczekiwaną książkę Danuty Gwizdalanki „Wajnberg”
Mieczysław Wajnberg (1918–1996) – może to być zaskakujące, ale ze statystyk programów koncertowych i nagrań płytowych wynika, że jest dziś najczęściej wykonywanym i nagrywanym kompozytorem polskim po Chopinie. Urodził się w Warszawie jako pierwszy kompozytor w niepodległej od miesiąca Polsce. Los rzucił go w wieku do 20 lat do ZSRR, gdzie pozostał do końca życia. Tam cieszył się pewnym uznaniem jako kompozytor muzyki użytkowej oraz koncertowej, jednak szersze zainteresowanie zaczął wzbudzać dopiero po swojej śmierci. Za życia największym impulsem do sławy było wystawienie jego opery Pasażerka na festiwalu w Bregencji – pierwszą operę, której akcja rozgrywa się w obozie koncentracyjnym, przyjęto jak sensację. Nie bez znaczenia dla zaciekawienia jego muzyką było jego żydowskie pochodzenie i wydarzenia z tym związane – ucieczka przed Niemcami z Warszawy do Rosji, później z Mińska do Taszkentu oraz aresztowanie za „żydowski nacjonalizm” w Moskwie. Jako muzyk czuł się Żydem, kształtowała go muzyka rosyjska, ale jako człowiek do końca życia czuł się Polakiem.
We highly recommend Danuta Gwizdalanka’s latest, long (?) awaited book ‘Wajnberg’ .
Mieczysław Wajnberg (1918-1996) – it may be surprising, but from the statistics of concert programmes and recordings, he is today the most performed and recorded Polish composer after Chopin. He was born in Warsaw as the first composer in Poland, which had been independent for a month. Fate threw him at the age of 20 to the USSR, where he remained for the rest of his life. There he enjoyed some recognition as a composer of applied and concert music, but only began to attract wider interest after his death. During his lifetime, the biggest boost to fame came with the staging of his opera The Passenger at the Bregenz Festival – the first opera set in a concentration camp was received like a sensation. Not insignificant for the interest in his music was his Jewish origin and the events related to it – his escape from the Germans from Warsaw to Russia, later from Minsk to Tashkent, and his arrest for ‘Jewish nationalism’ in Moscow. As a musician, he felt Jewish and was shaped by Russian music, but as a human being he felt Polish to the end of his life.
Mieczysław Wajnberg (1918-1996) – it may be surprising, but from the statistics of concert programmes and recordings, he is today the most performed and recorded Polish composer after Chopin. He was born in Warsaw as the first composer in Poland, which had been independent for a month. Fate threw him at the age of 20 to the USSR, where he remained for the rest of his life. There he enjoyed some recognition as a composer of applied and concert music, but only began to attract wider interest after his death. During his lifetime, the biggest boost to fame came with the staging of his opera The Passenger at the Bregenz Festival – the first opera set in a concentration camp was received like a sensation. Not insignificant for the interest in his music was his Jewish origin and the events related to it – his escape from the Germans from Warsaw to Russia, later from Minsk to Tashkent, and his arrest for ‘Jewish nationalism’ in Moscow. As a musician, he felt Jewish and was shaped by Russian music, but as a human being he felt Polish to the end of his life.