Chopinocentryzm życia Jana Ekiera. Rozważania na podstawie biografii artysty
The Chopin-centred life story of Jan Ekier. The study based on the biography of the artist

Author(s): Aneta Teichman
Subject(s): Cultural history, Music, Higher Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Ekier Jan; music; Chopin; pianist; biography
Summary/Abstract: The life of every human being is an endless collection of facts, information, events, thoughts, feelings, dreams and experiences. The assumption that a biography, trying to give the comprehensive description of a human life, i.e. from the moment of birth until death, is going to reveal the whole truth about a person, is probably far-fetched at best. How many questions would need to be asked and how many would need to be answered in order to present a person from a multitude of perspectives? How many problems would need to be analysed, how many puzzles would need an explanation, how many documents would need to be found? Sometimes we undertake this effort, often as a result of the great impact of a given individual’s achievements on a society, and his or her uniqueness as a human being. The primary objective of this article is to analyse the biography of Jan Ekier, one of the most remarkable Polish artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first century in terms of some universal characteristics of his academic and artistic activity. Is there a single factor that would meet the requirement of universality in a life so rich and multithreaded that we could identify? Its discovery would be fascinating because of the artist’s life which lasted for over a hundred years, filled with work and a great number of achievements. That is why, it is worth looking at his life from this perspective.

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