{"product_id":"composing-myself-a-new-edition","title":"Composing Myself – A New Edition: Collected Writings, Volume One","description":"First volume of a gripping collection of the writings of one of the twentieth century's finest composers, the Anglo-Polish Sir Andrzej Panufnik (1914-91), consisting of a new edition of his 1984 autobiography Composing Myself, his complete programme notes on his own compositions, his essays and articles and his interviews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Sir Andrzej   Panufnik used to say that he communicated in music, not words. But his   literary legacy is substantial, as this anthology demonstrates. Its first   volume consists of a fully annotated new edition of Composing Myself, the autobiography he wrote in 1985, long since   a collector's item. It provides a graphic account of an often dramatic life.   Panufnik's early success in pre-World War II Poland was soon eclipsed by the   horrors of the Nazi occupation. Composing   Myself documents in striking detail the desperate circumstances in which   Panufnik repeatedly found himself - and the personal courage with which he   responded. \u003cbr\u003ePost-War Poland then progressed from the overt   terrors of Nazism to the deadening hand of Communism, and Panufnik charts the   methodical attempts of Party orthodoxy to stifle independent thought. In   spite of the success he enjoyed as a conductor, Panufnik was unable to   compose under such restrictions, feeling he was being suffocated. Though a   patriot to his bones, he boldly decided that escape to the west was the only   option, and his account of his defection - in 1954, at the height of the Cold   War - reads like a le Carré thriller. Safe in England, he was able to rebuild   his career, overcoming official neglect of his music to become one of   Britain's best-respected composers - and to be greeted as a national hero   when he finally managed to return to his beloved Poland, free at last.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Couverture rigide","offer_id":46384207200466,"sku":"9780907689904","price":150.65,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_4ed2ae5d-7a9a-4f72-8ec3-ab611105b83c.jpg?v=1763637770","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/composing-myself-a-new-edition","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}