The Polish Composers' Union (, ZKP) is a society of Polish composers and musicologists.
History
The association was founded in
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
on August 29 or September 1, 1945 by the All-Polish Composers' Congress, as a continuation of the Association of Polish Composers founded in 1925.
Warsaw
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was chosen as the headquarters of the association. In addition to the composers, since 1948 the association was also supposed to include musicologists, who formed a separate section.
[Historia. In: Związek Kompozytorów Polskich. 2020 (Polish). https://www.zkp.org.pl/index.php/index.php/pl/o-zwiazku/historia]
The Polish government expected that the organization would promote the introduction of the doctrine of
Socialist Realism. Only after
Polish October
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(1956), a loosening of the political climate in the
People's Republic of Poland
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, did the ideologization of Polish culture end. The "
Warsaw Autumn
Warsaw Autumn () is the largest international Polish festival of contemporary music. It was established in 1956 by two composers, Tadeusz Baird and Kazimierz Serocki, and officially established by the Head Board of the Polish Composers' Union ...
", the festival for
contemporary music Contemporary music is whatever music is produced at the current time. Specifically, it could refer to:
Genres or audiences
* Adult contemporary music
* British contemporary R&B
* Christian adult contemporary
* Christian contemporary hit radio
* Con ...
in Poland, has been held every year since 1956.
[Związek Kompozytorów Polskich. In: Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej. 2020 (in Polish).]
The circle of young composers was founded in 1949. The young composers' competition has been held every year since 1958 (the Tadeusz Baird Competition since 1981). The association consists of eight branches in
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Kuyavia. Straddling the confluence of the Vistula River and its bank (geography), left-bank tributary, the Brda (river), Brda, the strategic location of Byd ...
,
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...
,
Katowice
Katowice (, ) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. K ...
, Kraków,
Lublin
Lublin is List of cities and towns in Poland, the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the centre of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin i ...
,
Łódź
Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...
,
Poznań
Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...
, Warsaw and
Wrocław
Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...
.
[
The organization endured past the transition to the ]Third Polish Republic
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* 1⁄60 of a ''second'', i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system
Places
* 3rd Street (dis ...
in 1989. Since 2001, the association has been running the Polish Center for Music Information (Polish Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej), a member of the International Association of Music Information Centres in Brussels
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.
References
Bibliography
*50 lat Związku Kompozytorów Polskich, ZKP, Warsaw, 1995, ISBN 83-903753-0-3.
*Nowa dekada. Związek Kompozytorów Polskich 1995–2005, Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej, Warsaw 2006, ISBN 83-924522-0-8.
External links
*
Polish Centre for Music Informations
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Culture of Poland
Music of Poland
Organizations established in 1945