On the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the death of Karol Szymanowski, the University of Warsaw Library, which boasts the largest collection of the composer's manuscripts and documents in Poland, makes their extensive selection available in the CRISPA digital library.
The first group of documents includes:
- musical autographs of Szymanowski's works with opus numbers (105 musical manuscripts in various forms: score, piano excerpt, fair copy, draft, sketch, fragment),
- photographs of the composer - portraits and chronicles of his life (49 items),
- first editions of some of his compositions (27 items).
Karol Szymanowski's legacy was transferred to the University of Warsaw Library in 1961 and its survival is largely due to the tireless work of the musicologist Stanisław Golachowski, who during the Second World War undertook and pursued the intention of integrating and securing the composer's scattered material output: his manuscripts, memorabilia, and correspondence.
After Piotra Maculewicz's note
The materials are available at https://crispa.uw.edu.pl/objects/collection/42