CULTURE
Baku hosts grandiose concert on jubilee of Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski
Baku, June 22 (AZERTAC). A concert dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski has been held at the Union of Azerbaijan Composers in Baku.
Head of the Union, People's Artist, Professor Firangiz Alizade highlighted the activity of the Polish composer.
Azerbaijani musicians Leyla Aliyeva, Ayyub Guliyev, Aynur Khalilova, Elshan Mammadov performed works by the Polish composer at the concert.
Witold Roman Lutoslawski was a Polish composer and orchestral conductor. He was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the preeminent Polish musicians during his last three decades. He earned many international awards and prizes. His compositions (of which he was a notable conductor) include four symphonies, a Concerto for Orchestra, a string quartet, instrumental works, concertos, and orchestral song cycles.
During his youth, Lutoslawski studied piano and composition in Warsaw. His early works were influenced by Polish folk music. His style demonstrates a wide range of rich atmospheric textures. He began to develop his own characteristic composition techniques in the late 1950s. His music from this period onwards incorporates his own methods of building harmonies from small groups of musical intervals. It also uses aleatoric processes, in which the rhythmic coordination of parts is subject to an element of chance.