The city routes through Warsaw, Poznan and Cracow will provide you with many facts from the biography of Oskar Kolberg and inform you about the people with whom he met, worked and corresponded as a musician and composer, and later as a field researcher, documentalist and publisher of his work “Lud” (The common folk).
The regional routes will show you the itineraries of Kolberg’s travels in the field. Following in his footsteps, you will visit many important Polish historical sites and discover the material that he collected, often illustrated with period prints. This journey will be accompanied by recordings of folk music from the archives of Polish Radio and the PAN Institute of Art.
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The application was created by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, the Institute of Music and Dance and the Oskar Kolberg Institute.
The year 2014 was declared the Kolberg Year by Polish parliament’s lower house, the Sejm, on 6 December 2013 to mark the bicentenary of the great folklorist and ethnographer. The anniversary is celebrated under UNESCO’s auspices.
Source: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute