Open AccessEdward Mąkosza. The Composer’s Life and Work
Author(s) -
Paweł Urban
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
kwartalnik młodych muzykologów uj
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2956-4107
pISSN - 2353-7094
DOI - 10.4467/23537094kmmuj.20.026.13899
Subject(s) - biography , hero , musical , art , world war ii , ethnomusicology , art history , history , spanish civil war , classics , visual arts , literature , archaeology
Edward Mąkosza (born on 13 November 1886 in Lisków, died on 25 April 1973 in Częstochowa) was a Polish composer, pedagogue, conductor, organist, and ethnomusicologist. He was the main organiser of musical life in Częstochowa. He wrote approximately a thousand compositions. He received numerous accolades and was hailed as a hero of the Jasna Góra Monastery.The paper presents Edward Mąkosza’s biography and is meant to serve as an introduction to a comprehensive study of his work. The successive periods of his life (childhood, youth, professional work until and after World War Two have been discussed. Subsequently I focus on the composer’s broadly understood professional activity:his teaching, artistic and community work. I thus attempt to present the professor’s entire biography.