dr hab. Agnieszka Leszczyńska, associate professor

She completed her master’s studies at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Warsaw in 1984. She was employed there at the Department of  the History of Polish Music, which she headed in 2011-2020. After the reorganization of the Institute, she works at the Department of the Music History. Her research interests concern European music until 1600, in particular sacred polyphony of the 15th and 16th centuries, analyzed in terms of its structure, sources and cultural context. Initially, she focused on the work of Franco-Flemish composers of Josquin’s generation. She devoted her doctoral dissertation (1994) to these issues, which was published in the form of a book entitled Melodyka niderlandzka w polifonii Josquina, Obrechta i La Rue (Warszawa 1997). Her second and most recent area of ​​interest is the 16th-century musical culture of Central Europe, especially in the Baltic regions. She obtained her habilitation in 2013 based on a series of articles devoted to the music of Royal Prussia in the second half of the 16th century. In 2022, she has been employed as an associate professor.

She presented the results of her research at several guest lectures (including in Mainz and Prague), as well as at over sixty national and international conferences in Poland, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

She belongs to the Polish Composers’ Union (Musicologists’ Section).

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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7893-3300