Katowice – a city of music

Entitled “Katowice – a musical metropolis”, it features scores, photographs, instruments, documents and death masks commemorating 19 prominent musicians who lived and worked in the southern Silesia region.

They include such household names in Polish music as the composers Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Wojciech Kilar, the conductor Grzegorz Fitelberg and the singer Adam Didur.

There are also exhibits relating to the long-standing tradition of amateur music-making in the region and its music institutions such as the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Silesian Philharmonic, and the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy.

At the end of last year, Katowice was included in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as a City of Music.

It is the first Central European city on the list, which includes Bogota (Colombia), Bologna (Italy), Seville (Spain), Glasgow (United Kingdom), Ghent (Belgium), Brazzaville ( The Republic of Congo), Hamamatsu (Japan), and Mannheim and Hanover (Germany).

The exhibition runs until 2 April 2017. (mk/pk)