Arnold Bôcklin’s ‘Im Spiel der Wellen’ as Interpreted in Music by Composers Ludomir Różycki and Max Reger. A Contribution to the Theory and History of Musical Ekphrasis

assistant professor at the Department of Musicology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He received his PhD from Adam Mickiewicz University in 2001. He specialises in the music of the French Revolution, operatic theatre of the twentieth century, the music of the Polish modernist movement (‘Young Poland in music’) and contemporary music (especially the work of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Paweł Mykietyn and Paweł Szymański). He has published the following books: Technika teatru w teatrze i jej operowe konkretyzacje [Play within the play and its operatic implementation] (Toruń, 1999 and 2000) and Poetyka teatru operowego Ferrucia Busoniego [The poetics of Ferruccio Busoni’s operatic theatre] (Poznań, 2005). As a music critic, he writes for Ruch Muzyczny and Zeszyty Literackie.