Maciej Gołąb
Maciej Gołąb (born 25 October 1952) is a Polish musicologist. Biography. Gołąb was born in Lębork (Poland) and educated at University of Warsaw, where he received his M.A. in 1976 and PhD in 1981. At University of Warsaw he studied under Józef M. Chomiński and Zofia Lissa and wrote his doctoral thesis on the history of the theory of twelve-tone technique. From 1978 to 2003 he taught at University of Warsaw. 2003 he joined the faculty of University of Wrocław where he became a full professor and chairman of the Department of Musicology (until 2020). In 1999 , he was visiting Scholar-in-Residence at Indiana University Bloomington and in 2001 visiting Professor at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany). Gołąb is a specialist in the history and theory of music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Chopin studies and methodology of musicological research. His monograph about a Polish-Jewish composer Józef Koffler (1896–1944) presents Poland's first serial composer, who was murdered in the Holocaust. In his book "Musical Work Analysis" he develops some of Roman Ingarden’s concepts on the epistemology of an actually existing work of music. The book was awarded by the Polish Ministry of  National Education (2004). The last book of Gołąb ("Musical Modernism in the Twentieth Century", 2011) is a discussion of approaches to twentieth-century historiography. From 1996 Gołąb is the Member of Editorial Board of the Musicological Quarterly "Muzyka" (Institute of Fine Arts, Polish Academy of Sciences), from 2018 "The Chopin Review" / "Studia Chopinowskie" (The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, Warsaw). From 2005 he is also General Editor of the "Musicologica Wratislaviensia" (Wrocław University Press), from 2012 - General Editor of the "Eastern European Studies in Musicology" (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers).