Grażyna Bacewicz - Joanna Sendłak
War and Resistance
Grażyna Bacewicz - Joanna Sendłak
Joanna Sendłak [+]
Writer
Joanna Sendłak is the grand-daughter of Grażyna Bacewicz. She was born and studied in Warsaw - first painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, then philosophy at the University. She has exhibited paintings in Warsaw galleries, published stories in literary magazines and is the author of a number of novels, most recently The Dreamer of 76th Street (Nowy Świat, 2016), With Fire: Grażyna Bacewicz in Love on the Eve of War (Skarpa Warszawska, 2018) and Symphony of Stars (Skarpa Warszawska, 2019). Two volumes of her short stories were published by Fundacja Światło Literatury in 2019: Atotsi and Labirynt.
Description
Bacewicz continues to compose throughout World War II in Warsaw and performs her Sonata for Solo Violin at an underground concert. She gives birth to a daughter in 1942. She describes the horrors of wartime Warsaw in a letter to her brother, Vytautas. After the war, she takes a post at the Conservatoire in Łódź, teaching violin and music theory. She is voted onto the peer jury at the Musicians’ Union.