Józef Świder — muzyka nostalgii — „prawo niepełni”
Józef Świder — Music of nostalgy — “the law of partiality”

Summary/Abstract: The work by Józef Świder, a Silesian composer, belonging to the post-Romantic stylistics in its aesthetic and technical dimension, was presented in the text in three segments typical of the composer: the sacred, the profane and the decorum, taking into account particular formal genres (hymns, masses, operas, religious music). A post-modernist arrangement of these works according to the type of expression and technical elements is even more characteristic because of the fact that the author has been following his artistic path for several decades, paying no attention to the formation and development of the avant-garde directions. This attachment to traditionalist expressionism, Romanticizing and deeply coloured with spirituality has its roots in the late Baroque model of a rather Mediterranean than Germanic or Gallic origin. What is specific is the fact that the author avoids the canon of a sonata or fugue and his choir apparatus has a dimension of the orchestra of human voices. An integral combination with the text, most willingly, Polish, a dominant role of melody, anchored in a final tonal system, as well as worshipping everlasting human feelings and great humanities treat about the originality of this work, and unavoidable consequence of his own aesthetic choices and the awareness of an artistic message.

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