dr hab. Agnieszka Leszczyńska, associate professor

Since completing her master’s degree programme at the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw in 1984, she has been working at the History of Polish Music Unit. Her research interests relate to European music until 1600, especially church polyphony of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, analysed in terms of its structure, sources and functioning in culture. Her initial focus was on the works of Franco-Flemish composers of the Josquin era; she carried out her research during i.a. three-month residency in 1989 at the Catholic University of Leuven under a grant from the Belgian Ministry of the Flemish Community. The result was a doctoral thesis (1994), subsequently published as a book, Melodyka niderlandzka w polifonii Josquina, Obrechta i La Rue (Warsaw 1997).

Dr Leszczyńska has been exploring mainly sixteenth-century musical culture of Baltic regions, particularly of Royal Prussia. To this end she has conducted research in libraries and archives of Warsaw, Gdańsk, Toruń, Elbląg, Olsztyn, Kraków, Wrocław, Berlin, Amsterdam, Vilnius, Uppsala – partly under a grant from the State Committee for Scientific Research, “Composers in Royal Prussia in the second half of the sixteenth century (2001–2004)”.

She presented papers at both national (Kraków 1987, Poznań 1991, 2008, 2011, Gdańsk 1999, 2005, 2011, Łódź 2001, Warsaw 2003, 2004, 2006, 2011, Łańcut 2007, Pelplin 2008, Radziejowice 2012), and international conferences (Poznań 1993, Gdańsk 1997, 2002, 2008, Bydgoszcz 2000, 2003, 2006, Tours 2005, Prague 2006, Zurich 2007, Bruges 2008, Antwerp 2008, Leuven 2009, Utrecht 2009, Warsaw 2009, 2011, Barcelona 2011, Greifswald 2013). She delivered guest lectures at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2002) and the Charles University in Prague (2008).

Member of the editorial committee of Polski Rocznik Muzykologiczny and Przegląd Muzykologiczny, as well as the Polish Composers’ Union, where in 1999–2001 and 2005–2013 she served as member of the board of the Musicological Section.