Integration Attempts Paweł Mykietyn and the Composer’s Self-Reflection MARCIN GMYS Department of Musicology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Email:
[email protected] The Polish Composers’ Union 70th Anniversary events are co-organised by the Institute of Music and Dance and co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Integration Attempts. Paweł Mykietyn and the Composer’s Self-Reflection Musicology Today • Vol. 12 • 2015 DOI: 10.1515/muso-2015-0006 ABSTRACT interviews which in no way contradict my own idea of the composer’s aesthetic stance, developed on the basis In this paper, the author attempts to reconstruct the aesthetic views of of my almost twenty-year-long acquaintance with the artist. Paweł Mykietyn, a leading Polish composer of the middle generation. Since Mykietyn has never presented his views comprehensively, the author reconstructs his opinions on the basis of published interviews ON MUSICAL BEAUTY with the composer, focusing on his ideas regarding musical and non- musical inspirations, the significance of mathematical procedures in the In the magazine “Glissando” No. 16 (2010), Paweł compositional process, traditional musical forms, the role of quotations Mykietyn gave the following answer to a question asked and self-quotations, experimentation with microtones and musical by Jan Topolski and Ewa Szczecińska regarding the time, as well as the concept of music as autobiography. wisdom of the compositional procedures he applies, Keywords: Paweł Mykietyn, postmodernism, microtonality, temporal which are usually exceptionally elaborate and closely innovation, permanent accelerando related to combinatorics. As evident from his reply, the purpose of such procedures is to create a beautiful Paweł Mykietyn has not yet published his ideas in artefact which will have a predefined effect on the listener: a systematic manner.