Archiwum Andrzeja Panufnika przekazane do Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Warszawie
The Archive of Andrzej Panufnik has donated to University of Warsaw Library

Summary/Abstract: Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) left Poland in July 1954 for political reasons and settled in the United Kingdom. After the composer's death, his wife, Camilla, donated her husband's collection of musical manuscripts to the collection of the British Library, where they became part of a specially designated Panufnik Collection. All the rest of the legacy remained at home, in Twickenham near London, where the composer had lived since 1963.In 2023. Lady Panufnik decided to donate the Andrzej Panufnik Archive to the Polish Composers Archive, operating as part of the Music Collections Cabinet of the University in Warsaw Library headed by Piotr Maculewicz.Among the materials donated to the BUW (117 boxes weighing a total of 440 kg) are Andrzej Panufnik's extensive correspondence, articles and press clippings, program notes and memos, typescripts (as well as audio and video recordings) of his interviews and radio appearances, concert programs, documentation of his birthday concerts and the ceremony in 1991 when Elizabeth II conferred the title of nobility on the composer, photographs from various periods of his life (many by the composer's wife, who is an acclaimed photographer), printed editions of his works, dedication editions donated to him by other artists, books and other materials documenting the life, work and reception of Andrzej Panufnik's music in the world. Together with a portion of the composer's legacy donated in 2017, these materials will form a special collection - the Andrzej Panufnik Archive, which will henceforth be part of the Polish Composers Archive of the BUW Music Collections Cabinet. After the conservation and processing of the donated materials, the collection will be made available to researchers from Poland and around the world.

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