Composing Myself and Other Texts: Collected Writings Panufnik Andrzej
Composing Myself and Other Texts: Collected Writings Panufnik Andrzej Sir Andrzej Panufnik used to say that he communicated in music, not words. Its major element is Composing Myself, the…
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Composing Myself and Other Texts: Collected Writings Panufnik Andrzej
Sir Andrzej Panufnik used to say that he communicated in music, not words. Its major element is Composing Myself, the autobiography he wrote in 1985, long since a collector's item and here republished in a fully annotated new edition. But his literary legacy is substantial, as this book demonstrates.
Panufnik's early success in pre-World War II Poland was soon eclipsed by the horrors of the Nazi occupation. It provides a graphic account of an often dramatic life. Composing Myself documents in striking detail the desperate circumstances in which Panufnik repeatedly found himself - and the personal courage with which he responded.Post-War Poland then progressed from the overt terrors of Nazism to the deadening hand of Communism, and Panufnik charts the methodical attempts of Party orthodoxy to stifle independent thought.
In spite of the success he enjoyed as a conductor,
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