dr hab. Anna Ryszka-Komarnicka

In 1989 she completed her secondary education at the Stefan Batory School in Warsaw and began her studies at the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, which ended with a master’s thesis entitled “Pasquale Anfossi’s oratorios in Poland”, written under the supervision of Prof. dr hab. Irena Poniatowska (published in Warsaw in 1996). In 1994–2003 assistant lecturer and since 2003 assistant professor at the General History of Music Unit. In 2002 she defended her doctoral thesis on Pasquale Anfossi’s oratorios (supervisor Prof. dr hab. Irena Poniatowska). Her main research interests encompass music of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly the oeuvres of Italian composers of the Baroque and Classical periods (opera, oratorio, cantata, forms and genres of arias, sonata form) as well as Polish musical culture of these centuries. She twice held a scholarship from the Lanckoroński Foundation (Rome, 2000 and 2012), made numerous short study visits to the libraries of Rome, Milan, Bologna, Padua and Venice (Centro V. Branca della Fondazione G. Cini a Venezia), participated in many national and international conferences, and collaborated with editors of music encyclopaedias: EM PWM, Encyklopedia Katolicka and MGG2. She carried out the project “Pasquale Anfossi’s oratorios (1727–1797)”, funded by the State Committee for Scientific Research (1999–2002), and a National Science Centre project, “The Book of Judith in Italian oratorios of the Baroque period (1621–1750)” (2011–2013).