Danuta Gwizdalanka – (1955), holds her doctoral degree in musicology from Poznań University (1990). She taught at Music Academy in Bydgoszcz (1981–1991), then a freelance author. Books, on chamber music (repertory guide – 1996, history 1750–1850 – 2016), on social history of music (Muzyka i polityka [Music and politics], 1999; Muzyka i płeć [Music and gender], 2001), textbooks for music education (1997, in Lithuanian 1999) and music history (2005, 2006, 2009, 2011), One Hundred Years of Polish Music History (2019; in Polish and English), biographies of Witold Lutosławski (co-author: Lutosławski. Droga do mistrzostwa [Lutosławski. The way to mastery], 2003, 2004; in German 2014) Mieczysław Wajnberg (Mieczysław Wajnberg. Kompozytor z trzech światów [Mieczysław Wajnberg: composer from three worlds], 2013, in German 2020), Der Verführer. Karol Szymanowski und seine Musik (2017, in Polish 2021), and anthology Symfonia na 444 głosy [Symphony for 444 voices] (2020).
