KAROL SZYMANOWKI: HIS LIFE AND WORKS
(Polish Music History Series)
by Teresa Chylinska, translated by John Glowacki  

Based on the correspondence and writings of Szymanowski collected for thirty years by the author, a foremost Polish expert on this composer, the monograph provides new material and new insights. It includes references to all first performances of the composer's works in America and the composer's own analysis of his Second Piano Sonata. Background information on the beginnings of Stabat Mater (a choral masterpiece of this century), and the scenario to the ballet Harnasie appear in a book for the first time  

Paperback: 355 pages
Publisher: Friends of Polish Music (Sep 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0916545008
ISBN-13: 978-0916545000