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Górecki in Context: Essays on Music  (2017)
​Edited by Maja Trochimczyk

This volume gathers interviews and studies of the music of the Polish composer,  Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933-2010). Contributors include the composer himself – in a series of interviews spanning his entire career, from 1962 to 2008 – as well as leading Górecki scholars from Poland, the U.K., the U.S., and Australia. Chapters highlight three of the four symphonies: the Second Copernican (Kinga Kiwała), the Third, The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Maja Trochimczyk) and the Fourth Tansman Episodes (Andrzej Wendland). Two studies by eminent Polish scholar and Górecki’s personal friend, Prof. Teresa Malecka present the composer’s links to Polish musical traditions and an overview of his piano music.  An overview of Górecki’s life and career and a case study of his visit to Los Angeles in 1997, when he conducted his Third Symphony for the first time outside of Poland, round up the volume. The collection includes also a list of works, music examples, photographs, and a bibliography. More information, table of contents, preface may be found on Moonrise Press Blog.
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PHOTOS: Left: Gorecki with Maja Trochimczyk in his studio in Katowice, April 1998. Center: Gorecki with Maja Trochimczyk, Andrzej Bachleda and Jane Kedron on USC Campus, October 1997; Right: Gorecki with Henry and Jane Kedron and Andrzej Bachleda at JPL/NASA in Pasadena, October 1997.

About the Editor

Maja Trochimczyk, Ph.D., is a music historian, poet, photographer, and non-profit director born in Poland and living in California (www.trochimczyk.net). Her work on Górecki was previously published in the Musical Quarterly, the Polish Music Journal, and Organized Sound. She published six books on music: “After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music;” “The Music of Louis Andriessen,” Polish Dance in Southern California,” “A Romantic Century in Polish Music,” “Lutoslawski: Music and Legacy,” and most recently “Frédéric Chopin: A Research and Information Guide” (rev. ed., 2015). She also published 27 peer-reviewed articles in such journals as Computer Music Journal, Leonardo, American Music, the Polish Review, Polish American Studies, and Muzyka, as well as 26 book chapters in edited volumes on Chopin, Lutosławski, women composers, Polish music after 1945, and ecomusicology. Hundreds of her articles and poems appeared in English, Polish, as well as in German, French, Chinese, Spanish and Serbian translations. She writes: "As one of the organizers of the 1997 Górecki Autumn Residency at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and the composer’s personal translator and guide, I had an unusually close contact with the reclusive composer and was able to present his views in two interviews and several articles, with a focus on the Third Symphony."

⦾ Contents ⦾
⦾ Maja Trochimczyk – Preface
⦾ Luke B. Howard – Why Love Górecki?
⦾ Maja Trochimczyk – Mountains of Grief (Poem)
⦾ PART I ⦾ GÓRECKI ON LIFE AND MUSIC
⦾ Chapter 1 ⦾ — Page 3 Conversation with Henryk Górecki: Leon Markiewicz, July 1962  — Translated by Anna Maslowiec
⦾ Chapter 2 ⦾ — Page 12  “I Am Always Myself” – Says Henryk Mikołaj Górecki in Conversation with Mieczysław Kominek (December 1993)  
⦾ Chapter 3 ⦾ — Page 22  About Life and Music: A Conversation with Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (Zakopane, 16 July 1997) — Maja Trochimczyk
⦾ Chapter 4 ⦾ — Page 45 “Composing is a Terribly Personal Matter:” A Conversation with Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (April 1998) —Maja Trochimczyk
⦾ Chapter 5 ⦾ — Page 66 “There’s More to Life than the Arranging of Sounds” – Henryk Mikołaj Górecki in Conversation with Małgorzata and Marcin Gmys
 ⦾ Chapter 6 ⦾ — Page 80 “Music? A Visitor from Another World,” (15 October 2008), Henryk Mikołaj Górecki in Conversation with Małgorzata and Marcin Gmys
⦾ Chapter 7 ⦾ — Page 87 “Music is a Conversation.” Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Talks to Anna Wieczorek and Krzysztof Cyran (29 April 2008) 

⦾ PART II ⦾ ON GÓRECKI’S LIFE AND MUSIC
⦾ Chapter 8 ⦾ — Page 101 Górecki’s Life and Music: A Bird’s Eye View — Maja Trochimczyk
⦾ Chapter 9 ⦾ Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s Symphony No. 2 Copernican:  Word and Sound and the Sublime — Kinga Kiwała  — Translated by Maja Trochimczyk
⦾ Chapter 10 ⦾ Mothers and Motherhood in Górecki's Third Symphony and Other Works  — Maja Trochimczyk
⦾ Chapter 11 ⦾ Górecki and the Polish Musical Tradition. Wacław of Szamotuły, Chopin, Szymanowski, Polish Folk and Church Music — Teresa Malecka
⦾ Chapter 12 ⦾ Górecki at the Keyboard: The Piano in his Compositional Output — Teresa Malecka
⦾ Chapter 13 ⦾ Górecki in Los Angeles, 1997 — Maja Trochimczyk
⦾ Chapter 14  ⦾ The  Phenomenon and Mystery of Górecki’s Fourth Symphony – Tansman. Epizody” —Andrzej Wendland (translated by Maja Trochimczyk)

⦾ Henryk Mikołaj Górecki - List of Works
⦾ Bibliography
⦾ Notes about Contributors
⦾ Index