“Why Are Our Women- Composers So Little Known?” Concerning Women’s Musical Output in Poland Between the Two World Wars IWONA LINDSTEDT Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw Email:
[email protected] This publication has been financed from the funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education allocated for the promotion and dissemination of science under agreement 730/P-DUN/2019. Open Access. © 2019 Iwona Lindstedt, published by Sciendo. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. “Why Are Our Women-Composers So Little Known?” Concerning Women’s Musical Output in Poland Between the Two World Wars Musicology Today • Vol. 16 • 2019 DOI: 10.2478/muso-2019-0004 ABSTRACT – Klechniowska Anna Maria – “a modern trend”; – Markiewiczówna Władysława – “writes mostly for Polish women-composers of the interwar period (1918–1939) have piano and chamber ensembles”. not been the subject of adequate research so far. We only have some contributory publications and general surveys dedicated to their output. This paper presents the initial results of a study that aims at creating a This list was supplemented with the names of a few more multi-sided, in-depth picture of women-composers’ work, including dance, popular song and operetta composers, such as: their participation in local and international music life as well as their [Wanda] Vorbond-Dąbrowska, [Fanny] Gordonówna, as achievements in the field of composition, the styles and genres practised by well as [Helena] Karasińska, daughter of Adam Karasiński, selected representatives of this milieu. The paper also discusses the reception who wrote the then popular waltz entitled François.