Alhough Henryk Sienkiewicz’s musical competence was not extensive, his writing shows predilection for the harmony of such eminent composers as Beethoven and Schumann. Musical thematisations that highlight the transcendent ...

This article concerns the concept of a musical spectacle by Agnieszka Osiecka „Niech no tylko zakwitną jabłonie” (Let apple trees blossom) presented in 1964 in the Ateneum Theater in Warsaw. It is concluded that in this ...

The topic of this paper is Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna Children’s Rhymes – a book of poetic miniatures for children, to which Karol Szymanowski composed a set of songs for voice and piano entitled Children’s Rhymes Op. 49 in ...

This essay shows how multidirectional relations between the words and the music are bound in Leśmian’s world. The medium is a human being, a poet-singer oversensitive to the voice of being, who turns music into words and ...

This article undertakes the topic of the evolution in perceiving the ideal of literary musicality among representatives of French symbolism, taking into account Baudelaire and Mallarmé. The former, who is considered to be ...

In Zbigniew Herbert’s early works from the volume Hermes, pies i gwiazda (Hermes, a dog and a star, 1957), one can find cues indicating that contacts with music were his source of ambivalent feelings and reflections. This ...

This paper is an attempt to compare experimental artistic activities taken independently by the composer Bogusław Schäffer, and the poet Witold Wirpsza in the 1960s. In the works of the former the role and ways of using a ...

The object of my interest is music co-creating the so-called “acoustic kitchen” in radio drama adaptations of Tadeusz Różewicz’s works. There is no doubt that both in older versions of radio dramas, including Świadkowie ...

This article is devoted to the theory of new German opera created by E.T.A Hoffmann and the first attempt to putting it into practice. His short story entitled The Poet and the Composer (1813) and released in the Leipzig ...

This paper aims to present music and musicality as aspects of Vladimir Nabokov’s prose, as well as his relationship with music. As is shown in this article, Nabokov’s literary texts involve at least three different aspects ...