Maria Przychodzińska, outstanding professor in the field of music education, passed away on 14 September 2019. Funeral ceremonies will take place on Friday, 20 September, at 1 p.n. at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw.
Professor Maria Pokrzywińska for many years was an employee of the Institute of Music at the Faculty of Arts of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. In the years 1991–2005, she was the head of the Department of Music Teaching. She was an outstanding teacher, educator of many generations of students, doctoral students and music teachers, the most distinguished person in music education field in Poland, a co-creator of the Polish concept of musical education, author of numerous textbooks for students and teachers, monographs, several hundred articles as well as methodological and scientific studies.