Grażyna Bacewicz - Joanna Sendłak
Art versus Realism
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
In 1951 Bacewicz’s String Quartet No. 4 wins first prize in the International String Quartet Composition in Liège; the following year she serves as a member of the jury for the same competition, where her winning string quartet is a set piece. Her letter from Belgium to her brother, Vytautas, in the US describes conditions for a composer in communist Poland.