Gałczyński alternatywnie

Abstract

The poetry of Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski is marked by musicality. The openness of the poet’s text to sonority and melody has resulted in an extraordinary popularity of performances in the world of literary song, sung poetry or various cabaret forms. Against this background, musical adaptations of Galczynski’s texts are extremely modest. Usually, the transfer of the poetic text into the space of musical performance is carried out through the solutions of sung poetry or acted song, much less through musical alternative. If contemporary alternative music reaches out to the poetry of the Bicentennial, it is rather to Tuwim or Broniewski; it does so much less often to the author of ‚Warsaw cab’. Musical adaptations of Gałczyński’s poetry by Stanisław Staszewski, whose performances were reread by the bands Kult and Kwartet ProForma, are an exception. Analysing the musical interpretations of the poems, the author asks the question about the reason for such a negligible representation of Gałczyński’s texts in alternative music.