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Lutoslawski on Music.(Book review)

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Lutoslawski on Music. By Witold Lutoslawski. Edited and translated by Zbigniew Skowron. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007. [xxiii, 347 p. ISBN-13: 9780810848047. $80.] Illustrations, music examples, references, bibliography, index.

Of all the composers of significance in the late twentieth century, it was Witold Lutoslawski whose personality, quite apart from his music, I have found most intriguing. He was always well-dressed, and his deportment was immaculate. Generous in his praise of others and gentle with his criticisms, self-effacing, undogmatic, he appeared the most gentlemanly of composers in an era of unbridled rebellion and revolution in art music. I ...

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