sobota, 11 stycznia 2020

Correspondence with prof. Piotr Gliński, the Deputy President of the Council of Ministers, Minister of Culture and National Heritage



The Republic of Poland
Deputy President of the Council of Ministers,
Minister of Culture and National Heritage


                                                                     Professor Jerzy Marchwiński



Highly Esteemed Professor,
          Please accept my congratulations and cordial wishes on the grand anniversary of your birthday.
          Throughout many decades of your rich - and truly Renaissance - an activity for the benefit of Polish culture, you have contributed to the international prestige of our music. The masterful concerts you gave to music lovers in renowned Polish and international concert halls worldwide, often partnering with top-class soloists including first of all your esteemed wife, Maestra Ewa Podleś and artists such as Wanda Wiłkomirska and Konstanty Andrzej Kulka has become a memorable part of the history of Polish music of recent decades. We remember how your creative approach to well-known masterpieces with established performing traditions made them sound surprisingly fresh, delighting the audience with new solutions in timbre shaping, articulation, agogics or construction of sophisticated texture structures.

          Your numerous performances recorded on CDs and made for Polish and worldwide radio and television stations are also truly awesome. The rich repertoire with which you have delighted music lovers on five continents is both classical and contemporary, always with a significant share of Polish music. It is with the utmost respect and sincere appreciation that we recall the extraordinary emotions accompanying the concerts of the Masters' Quartet. Your huge piano talent, impeccable taste, and rich imagination are just a few of the attributes of artistic perfection thanks to which you have become a great authority for Polish musicians and audiences.

          Please accept also the words of gratitude for your passionate, large-scale and successful teaching activities. As a pupil of Professor Maria Wiłkomirska and Professor Kiejstut Bacewicz who is considered to be the leading architect of Polish chamber music and the patron of the Music Academy in Łódź, you had taught a master class at your home university, the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw for many years. Your numerous, outstanding graduates have successfully passed on your ideas to the next generation of pianists. Last, but not least, one should also mention your invaluable, unique in Europe publications on the art of partnership in music, a topic of fundamental importance to the development of musical culture. Maestro, please accept my sincere wishes for much more professional successes and happiness in your personal life.

Respectfully yours,
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Warsaw, 6 January 2020



                                                                                         Warsaw, 7 January 2020

Professor Piotr GLIŃSKI
Deputy President of the Council of Ministers,
Minister of Culture and National Heritage
Krakowskie Przedmieście 15/17
00-071 Warsaw

Highly Esteemed Mr. Minister,
Your unexpected, the beautiful letter which I received on the eve of my eighty-fifth birthday was truly moving and brought me a lot of joy.

I see it also as the official culmination of my modest efforts in being a fair servant of the Art which in my view seems to be the most extraordinary fruit of human Spirit.

Throughout all the hardships and turmoil of life I have been always true to the wisdom of Hippocratic adage Ars longa, vita brevis.

With thanks and best wishes for successful New Year 2020

I remain,


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