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Akademicka glosa na stulecie śmierci Władysława Żeleńskiego
Małgorzata Woźna-Stankiewicz
Abstract
An academic gloss on the centenary of Władysław Żeleński’s death A reminder of the funeral ceremony of Władysław Żeleński, who died in Kraków in January 1921, the content of the funeral oration, and the proposal for the composer’s burial in the Crypt of Honour at the Church on the Rock in Kraków gave rise to deeper reflection on his relationship with the Jagiellonian University. This article reconstructs the completely forgotten history of Władysław Żeleński’s unsuccessful efforts to secure a position as professor of music history and theory at that university in 1899 and early 1900. The first musicological seminar was not established at the Jagiellonian University until 1911. The steps taken by the JU’s Faculty of Philosophy and the efforts made by Żeleński himself are described in the context of formal-institutional and personal considerations, as well as issues relating to academic merit. The numerous relations between the Music Society, the Conservatoire and the University in Kraków are presented, and the issue of Żeleński’s occasional cantatas linked to the JU (the oldest Polish university) is raised, especially the University’s commissioning from the composer, in 1898, of an oratorio to mark the four-hundredth anniversary of its reforming and modernisation in 1900.
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