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Witold Lutosławski’s Livre pour orchestre (1968) reveals a composer uninterested in conventional restraints.

The stringed instruments bend notes, slide between the normal intervals and create clouds of pure tone. Freedom was a precious commodity for a Pole of his generation, although he always minimised the connections between external pressures and the music he produced.

He was born into a family of rich landowners who were members of the intelligentsia.

Second in a series of four biographical films on the Polish composer, Witold Lutosławski.

Second in a series of four biographical films on the Polish composer, Witold Lutosławski.

Lutosławski pursued studies in Mathematics at the University of Warsaw and earned diplomas in Piano () and Composition () from the Warsaw Conservatory.

First in a series of four biographical films on the Polish composer, Witold Lutosławski.

WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI (), Polish composer and conductor, is known as one of the greats of 20th-century music.

Fourth in a series of four biographical films on the Polish composer, Witold Lutosławski.

His father, Józef, a leading light of the right-wing patriotic party Endecja, was executed without trial as a consequence of the Russian Revolution. Witold was only five. While his mother attempted to rebuild the family estates, he became increasingly absorbed in music.

He entered the Warsaw Conservatoire with hopes of taking lessons with Karol Szymanowski. As it turned out, his only composition teacher would be the Rimsky-Korsakov pupil Witold Maliszewski. Throughout his composing career Lutosławski retained a love of