Polish Female Composers in the Nineteenth Century MAGDALENA DZIADEK Institute of Musicology, Jagiellonian University in Cracow 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 Magdalena Dziadek, published by Sciendo. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. Polish Female Composers in the Nineteenth Century Musicology Today • Vol. 16 • 2019 DOI: 10.2478/muso-2019-0002 ABSTRACT Adam Mickiewicz, consciously basking in the rays of the poet’s glory. However, because Szymanowska maintained The article discusses the activities of selected women-composers who worked in Poland in the 19th century. They have been presented in close contacts with the European artistic world and co- a broad social-political context. Specific historical conditions have created, rather than merely imitated, the current trends been taken into account, which have contributed to the perception of in music; she therefore remains a separate phenomenon women’s creativity as a mission. The model of women’s activity discussed in the history of Polish female composers. in the categories of social and political mission influenced the shape and The vast majority of nineteenth-century female forms of Polish women’s creativity in the first half of the century. In the second half of the century, women’s access to education increased composers from Poland did not make their mark in the and finally a milieu of professional women-composers emerged.