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  • Meyer together with Irina Shostakovich in Dilijan, Armenia

    Krzysztof Meyer has many unforgettable memories of his numerous meetings with Dmitri Shostakovich, but unfortunately not a single photo.
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  • Presentation of the Jerzy Kurczewski Prize to Meyer by Krzysztof Penderecki

    Auditorium of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Krzysztof Meyer was Krzysztof Penderecki's first graduate student in 1965.
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  • The composer talking to the conductor Andrey Boreyko

    Before the world premiere of "Chansons d’un rȇveur solitaire" in January in Düsseldorf.
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  • Antoni Wit conducts the Polish premiere of the 6th Symphony "The Polish".

    In January in Krakow, the world premiere was in Hamburg in 1982.
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  • With his wife Danuta Gwizdalanka

    Seen through the camera of their friend the pianist Antoinette Van Zabner in the cafe in Kärntner Straße.

  • Krzyś with his parents

    Maria and Jan Meyer in their house in Kraków (Summer 1947).
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  • Queen Genia (Pamela Geddes) and Trull, the constructor (Michal Milanov)

    Two of the protagonists in the opera Kyberiade in Wuppertal.
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  • Poster for the opera "Kyberiade"

    With a libretto based on stories by Stanisław Lem, world premiere in Wuppertal.
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  • Meeting with Mauricio Kagel

    Meyer and Kagel met up regularly for years at the Academy of Music in Cologne, where both composers taught.
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  • Krzysztof Meyer and György Ligeti

    Between the pianola of Jürgen Hocker in Bergisch Gladbach near Cologne, January 1992.

  • Meyer receives Olivier Messiaen as part of the "Warsaw Autumn" festival

    Between 1985 and 1989 Krzysztof Meyer was the chair of the Association of Polish Composers.
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  • Meyer in conversation with Swjatoslaw Richter

    Richter was one of the outstanding pianists of his generation. However, the "Warsaw Autumn" also featured musicians who played instruments in an unconventional and surprising way.
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  • Meyer in conversation with Karlheinz Stockhausen, in the background Konstanty Regamey during the "Warsaw Autumn".

    The festival for new music has been organised since 1956. During the Cold War, it represented a bridge for musicians on both sides of the "Iron Curtain".
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  • Sketches for the VII. Symphony

    As ever in pencil: traditional notation, traditional sound.
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  • Music in the age of the avant-garde

    The start of the I. String quartet by Krzysztof Meyer.
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  • Student at the Music Lyceum in Kraków

    In preparation for his piano diploma examination (in the background Sonata in A flat, Opus 26 by Beethoven).
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  • Krzysztof Meyer

    At the age of 70.

  • ill. 14: MORNING STAR

    A sculptural installation made out of arrows, Ø = 200 cm.
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  • ill. 13: CONE

    A sound installation.Tophane-i Amire Culture and Arts Centre, Istanbul 2013.
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  • ill. 12c. SIMULACRA

    Detailed view of the SIMULACRA.
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