Całe życie z muzykologią. Wspomnienia uniwersyteckie z Poznania i Krakowa

Abstract

Zygmunt M. Szweykowski (born in 1929 in Krakow), an eminent scholar and doyen of Polish musicology, shares his memories of his postwar studies and first years of university work in Poznan and a long period of teaching and scholarly activity at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He remembers the personages of older musicologists (e.g. Tadeusz Strumillo), and his masters (inter alia Adolf Chybinski), presents the picture of numerous determinants during the People’s Poland period and during the subsequent political-system transformations, describes the development of the Jagiellonian University’s Institute of Musicology over several decades, discusses in detail the teaching innovations he has introduced, and finally recalls various episodes of university life, occasionally embellished with anecdotes. Professor Z. M. Szweykowski’s autobiographical story is an interesting contribution to the history of Polish musicology in the second half of the twentieth century.