In comparison to other classical music players (such as Fiodor Szalapin’s Memories from my life), Arthur Rubinstein’s My early years seem to be a work of a thriller-like fabular layer and an elementary non-fiction value. ...

The subject of this article is the relationship between literature and the text of song. First part of article concerns the songs which texts approach to literature and begin to exist in the listeners’ consciousness ...

Music is not a very topical theme in contemporary Lithuanian literature. The Lithuanian literature saved its meditative and visual nature during the most difficult epoch of historical and social cataclysms, and only some ...

The essay deals with the problem of the presence of women in music. In the history of the culture, art above all, women have traditionally constituted the object of artistic creation, not the creator. Particularly valuable ...

Word and music studies, which in recent years have been gaining more and more attention, still remain a source of a never-ending discussion on ‘the method’ and ‘the manner of speaking’ about the manifestations of a work ...

The article discusses the autobiographical work of Artur Rubinstein entitled My Many Years. The author of the article is interested in how the virtuoso pianist writes about music and his inspiring performances. On the ...

Elżbieta Zarych presented the Italian writer and musicologist’s famous monologue in the context of his other literary and theoretical books, literary and musical works that served as his inspiration, as well as, contemporary ...

The article addresses the issue of various interpretative contexts of Jonathan Littell’s best-selling novel The Kindly Ones (Les Bienveillantes). In particular, it deals with ethical and rhetorical consequences of the ...