![]() ![]() ![]() Keywords: Andrzej Chłopecki, music criticism, new romanticism, Stalowa Wola generation, contemporary music, humanism of music, egalitarianism. ![]() The third part of the article presents Chłopecki’s position on the accusation of the lack of humanism that was presented by the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset regarding the music of the twentieth century. The second section of the text describes Chłopecki’s categories of novelty and originality that are important for the interpretation of contemporary music and that exist only in relation to tradition and in opposition to the old. Then, the problems of contemporary music that Chłopecki found important, which he repeatedly returned to in his writing, are presented. The auctorial definitions of composing generations, which he identified, as well as his work, The Superstitions of the fading century are discussed. development of the discourse on Polish contemporary music. In the first section, Chłopecki’s role as a music critic is presented, which, through the perception of new phenomena in contemporary music, their naming, and explanation, in essence contributed to the. This article is an attempt to summarize both the key and characteristic features of music criticism, which Andrzej Chłopecki practiced, as well as the critical problems that he had to deal with. ![]()
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