Lutosławski a Miciński, czyli „ciasny logik” kontra „błyskotliwy improwizator”

Abstract

The author joins a discussion, lasting over half a century, on the relationship between Wincenty Lutosławski and the poet and writer Tadeusz Miciński. The artists’ acquaintance went from a master – apprentice relationship, through a friendly and then rough friendship, a correspondence full of resentment, mutual instruction, and finally a relaxation of pleasantness to the level of former acquaintance, maintained occasionally by an exchange of letters. Lutosławski and Miciński competed for the government of souls, they designed a new Poland, and they wanted to be the educators of the nation. Their visions, for all their similarities, diverged significantly. Just as they themselves mentally and characteristically were very different.