At the end of March, audiences will hear the premiere of a work that was created 90 years ago by Józef Koffler, Poland’s first dodecophonist composer whose life and career were cut short by the Nazis. Details of Koffler’s largely unknown oeuvre are richly discussed in the PMC’s Polish Music History Series No. 8, Józef Koffler: Compositional Style and Source Documents, the only English translation of the seminal work of Koffler specialist Maciej Gołąb.
The hitherto lost, four-movement String Quartet Op. 20 was discovered at the end of last year in the archives of the Royal College of Music in London by musicologist Iwona Lindstedt. This previously unplayed piece by the Polish pioneer of the interwar avant-garde will be performed by the renowned Silesian Quartet on March 29 in the Auditorium Building of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw. Organized by the Polish Composers’ Union in cooperation with PWM and the Archive of Polish Composers of the University of Warsaw Library, the concert will be accompanied by the unveiling of an online monographic portal dedicated to Józef Koffler at polmic.pl.
Saturday, March 29
Silesian Quartet premieres Koffler’s String Quartet Op. 20
Warsaw University, Prof. Jan Baszkiewicz Auditorium
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Warszawa, Poland
[Source: pwm.com.pl, polmic.pl]