PWM Edition — The Polish Canon

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PWM Edition.

Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne. Founded in 1945 in Kraków, the only music publisher in Poland for the post-war years and home of the Chopin National Edition. The catalogue carries Chopin, Szymanowski, Lutosławski, Penderecki, Górecki and the entire 20th-century Polish canon.

Founded
1945
City
Kraków, PL
Tradition
Chopin National Edition
Catalogue
12 departments
The PWM Catalogue

PWM's flagship is the Chopin National Edition — the scholarly urtext prepared by Jan Ekier and his team over fifty years, restoring Chopin's music from the manuscripts. Beyond Chopin, the PWM catalogue carries the entire 20th-century Polish school: Szymanowski, Lutosławski, Penderecki, Górecki, Bacewicz, Kilar, Mykietyn.

Below: the PWM departmental catalogue. Composer-first for the major Polish voices, format for the orchestral, chamber, vocal, choral, organ, and guitar sub-catalogues, plus the Chopin scholarly editions and the contemporary commissioning programme.

Catalogue · 12 Departments

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