Skrzypce w Auschwitz

Maria Sławek

doi:10.32927/zzsim.899

No. 17 (2021)

ISSN:

1895-247X

eISSN:

2657-3571

Publication Date:
2021-12-20

Section: Small forms

A Violin in Auschwitz

Maria Sławek

maria.slawek@amuz.krakow.pl Author Biography

violinist, habilitated doctor of arts, works at the Department of Violin and Viola at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków as an assistant professor; she runs his violin class there. Co-founder (with Ania Karpowicz) and president of the Mieczysław Weinberg Institute. The originator and coordinator of the International Conference "Mieczysław Wajnberg - Creator and History: Identity, Interpretations, Contexts", which took place at the Academy of Music in Krakow in 2019, curator of the project "Domówka u Mietka Wajnberga", co-curator of Spacerowik "Warszawa Wajnberga", initiator of the naming Mieczysław Weinberg street in Warsaw's Mirów district. She collaborates with "Ruch Muzyczny". She has three albums to her credit. She has performed in many Polish cities, as well as in Germany, Israel, Great Britain, Brazil, Belgium, Ukraine, USA, Italy and France.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4228-1969

Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 17 (2021), Pages: 629-630

Submission Date: 2021-12-19

Publication Date: 2021-12-20

https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.899

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Abstract

In the music notation, a pause indicates the duration of the silence. Sometimes this silence is precisely dictated by the pace of the piece and the number of notes in the bar, in other cases it depends more on the inner sense of time of the player. It also happens that the composer writes down silence at the end of the piece, not trusting - perhaps rightly - the performer that he will be able to sense and understand it himself. Sometimes even the whole piece, as in the case of John Cage's famous 4'33, is actually written four and a half minutes of silence. Silence can be of great importance, it can be saturated with meanings or it can be completely empty.

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