Two distinguished PWM Editors has passed away in July

With a delay, we learned about the death of the senior editors for many years associated with the PWM Edition, who rendered great services to the publishing movement and the Polish musicological community. Mirosława Kaczorowska-Guńkiewicz died on 2 July 2020 in Kraków at the age of 88. Aleksandra Szurmiak-Bogucka (in the photo) passed away on 17 July 2020 in Kraków at the age of 91.

Late Mirosława Kaczorowska-Guńkiewicz – musicologist, from 1966 a member of the Musicologists' Section of the Polish Composers' Union, was the closest collaborator of the editor-in-chief Eżbieta Dziębowska in publishing the monumental "PWM Music Encyclopedia". In 2012 she took part in a film devoted to the history of this ambitious publishing venture, which is available online on the PWM website. She also worked on music editions, preparing for publication, among others, works by Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki. She was active in her community until the last years of her life.

Late Aleksandra Szurmiak-Bogucka – an outstanding ethnomusicologist, member of the Musicologists' Section of the Polish Composers' Union, specialized in the traditional music culture of the Polish Carpathians and Subcarpathia. In the 1950s, together with her husband Kazimierz Bogucki, she made recordings of traditional musical folklore as part of the so-called 'Action to Collect Folk Music'. In the years 1965-91 she was the Head of the Editorial Office of Early Polish Music and Folklore (editor of the series "Rites and Folk Customs"). In 1986 she received the Oskar Kolberg Award for contributions to the folk culture. Professionally active almost until the end of her life, she was a juror of numerous folklore competitions, the author of many publications, the unquestionable authority of several generations of musicians, folklorists and regionalists.