Grażyna Bacewicz - Joanna Sendłak
Compositions between Performances
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’s Overture has its premiere in Kraków in 1945. She spends three months in Paris in 1946, where she composes her String Quartet No. 3, and where her many concerts and recitals are given excellent reviews. Her career takes off exponentially. In 1948 her Olympic Cantata is commended in the International Olympic Art Competition in London, and she also composes her Concerto for String Orchestra and her Violin Concerto No. 3.