Employees

dr hab.

Agnieszka Muszyńska-Andrejczyk

prof. UMFC

Department: Department of Composition and Theory of Music

Italian studies, Italian phonetics and lyric diction

dr hab.

Agnieszka Muszyńska-Andrejczyk

prof. UMFC

Italian studies

Graduated from the University of Warsaw where she majored in Italian Studies (2006); obtained her doctoral degree from the same institution in 2006 based on her thesis related to comparative literature (literature vs. music). Earned her post-doctoral degree in 2020 in the discipline of musical arts. Also graduated from the J. Elsner Secondary State Music School (guitar class). Member of the Inter-Faculty Unit for Comparative Literature (University of Warsaw), Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini, the largest academic organisation gathering scholars studying the life and work of the composer from Lucca and Società Italiana di Musicologia.

She currently holds the position of Professor at the Department of Theory of Music and the Department of Humanities and Foreign Languages at FCUM, and is the head of the last unit since 2016. She teaches specialist Italian Language classes (e.g. phonetics and diction for singers) to students majoring in Solo Singing, Symphony and Opera Conducting or Choir Vocal Studies. She is also a co-lecturer of the subject “Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture” to students majoring in Theory of Music. She collaborated with the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Warsaw, her alma mater, giving lectures on Italian opera.
 
Her scholarly interests revolve around librettology, comparative music and literature, and translation studies.  She is a researcher of Giacomo Puccini’s work. In 2019 she published a book entitled “Puccini. Willidy–Edgar–Manon Lescaut. Geneza, libretto, przekład” [Origin, Libretto, Translation]. It is the first monograph devoted to this composer in half a century, based on source materials: letters, documents and reviews. Critical studies of the librettos and their phonetic transcription, as well as the author’s philological translation constitute an integral part of the book. Two more volumes are being prepared and they are meant to embrace all Puccini’s works. Agnieszka Muszyńska-Andrejczyk also makes translations of opera libretti, adapting them to directors’ visions. For many years, she was a chorister at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (director: Rev. Prof. K. Szymonik), and then the Warsaw-Praga District Cathedral Choir called “Musica Sacra” (director: Prof. P. Łukaszewski).

At the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music: in 2018 she initiated the establishing of the Libretto and Opera Studies Laboratory. She is also an originator and scientific editor of the series entitled “Studia Librettologiczne i Operologiczne” [“Libretto and Opera Studies”] focused around interdisciplinary studies on musical theatre. As part of the activity of the lab, she co-organised Poland’s first international academic conference entirely devoted to works by Gaetano Donizetti (2020). In 2022 Agnieszka Muszyńska-Andrejczyk received the Rector’s Award (2nd degree), and in 2023 she was honored with the “Zasłużony dla UMFC” distinction. She is a member of the UMFC Council of the Artistic Discipline for the 2024–2028 term.
 
Publications
Monographs:
- Puccini. Willidy–Edgar–Manon Lescaut. Geneza, libretto, przekład, Chopin University Press, Warsaw 2019
Academic editor:
- Puccini na głosy, Chopin University Press, Warsaw 2017
– Studia Librettologiczne i Operologiczne, vol. 01, Chopin University Press, Warsaw 2019
– Studia Librettologiczne i Operologiczne, vol. 02, Granados, Goyescas, Goya i kultura hiszpańska, Polish/Spanish edition, edited by A. Muszyńska-Andrejczyk, I. Ruiz Artola, M. Kubala, Chopin University Press, Warsaw 2024/2025
– Studia Librettologiczne i Operologiczne, tom 03, Donizetti, Polish/Italian edition, edited by A. Muszyńska-Andrejczyk, L. Masi, Chopin University Press, Warsaw (in preparation)

Most important articles:
•   Dante op. 21 Enrique Granadosa: piekło, miłość, wina, literatura/ Dante op. 21 de Enrique Granados: infierno, amor, culpa y literatura, [in:] „Studia Librettologiczne i Operologiczne. Granados, Goyescas, Goya i kultura hiszpańska”, t. 2, Polish/Spanish edition, edited by A. Muszyńska-Andrejczyk, M. Kubala, I. Ruiz Artola, Chopin University Press, Warsaw 2024/2025
•   Translating an Operatic Libretto: The Status and Role of an Interpreter. Cognitive Lingustic in the Interpretation and Translations of Stage Directions – a Case Study, “Muzyka w kontekście pedagogicznym, społecznym i kulturowym”, edited by E. Nidecka, J. Wąsacz-Krztoń, nr 4/2024
•    Przekłady "Don Pasqualego" Gaetana Donizettiego na język polski a interpretacja sceniczna wg Manuela Garcíi juniora (article). Przekład autorski libretta "Don Pasquale" Gaetana Donizettiego (translation of the libretto) [in:] Szkoła bel canto Manuela Garcíi seniora. Geneza, problematyka, kontynuacja, recepcja w wokalistyce współczesnej, edited by R. Cieśla, M. Kubala, Chopin University Press, Warsaw 2023
•    Le traduzioni dei libretti pucciniani in polacco, [in:] Libretti d’opera fra Italia e Polonia, edited by F. Della Corte, L. Masi, E. Tonello, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego, Warsaw 2022
•    Willidy - od „leggenda in un atto” do „opera-ballo in due atti”, [in:] Puccini. Rozważania i interpretacje, edited by D. Brolik-Bekrycht, B. Stróżyńska, Akademia Muzyczna im. Grażyny i Kiejstuta Bacewiczów w Łodzi, Lodz 2020
•    Rossini and Poland: Libretto Translations of Operas by the Master from Pesaro and his Presence in Polish Theatres in the Past and Today, [in:] Rossini after Rossini. Musical and Social Legacy, edited by A. Jacobshagen, Brepols 2020
•    „Halka” i „Paria” Stanisława Moniuszki w przekładach włoskich: opery jeszcze polskie czy już ponadnarodowe?, https://moniuszko200.pl/pl/publikacje/agnieszka-muszynska-andrejczyk-halka-i-paria-stanislawa-moniuszki-w-przekladach-wloskich
•    Acquiring Process of Italian Lyric Diction by Voice Students - Basic Issues on the Example of Musetta's Waltz „Quando me'n vo” from Giacomo Puccini's „La Bohéme”, [in:] Janáčkiana 2018, edited by K. Steinmetz, D. Kozel, Ostrava 2019
•    Dlaczego Liù? "Turandot" Pucciniego i Gozziego, [in:] Uczucia i emocje. Konteksty edukacyjne i artystyczne, edited by J. Posłuszna, Cracow 2018
•    Stile Liberty w służbie opery: Ricordi - Hohenstein - Puccini. O lojalności wobec wizji literackiej, [in:] Literatura a malarstwo, edited by J. Godlewicz-Adamiec, P. Kociumbas, T. Szybisty, Cracow - Warsaw 2017
•    Religijny idiom muzyczno-literacki w operach Giacomo Pucciniego: [in:] "Et super hanc petram... Księga pamiątkowa z okazji 75-lecia urodzin Ks. Prof. K. Szymonika, edited by M. Sławecki, Warsaw 2017
•    Pucciniowski "Tryptyk": motywy literackie, motywy muzyczne, [in:] Puccini na głosy, edited by S. Dąbek, A. Muszyńska-Andrejczyk, M. Sokołowicz, Warsaw 2017
•    Przekłady oper Giacoma Pucciniego - normy translatorskie a polska tradycja teatralna, [in:] "Między Oryginałem a Przekładem", R. XXII, nr 3 (33), Cracow 2016
•    Leila - ostatnia powieść Antonia Fogazzara i jej konteksty muzyczne, [in:] Transpozycje. Muzyka w nowoczesnej literaturze europejskiej, edited by A. Hejmej, i T. Górny, Cracow 2016
•    Puccini - następca Verdiego, admirator Wagnera, [in:] Teatr muzyczny Verdiego i Wagnera, edited by R. D. Golianek i H. Winiszewska, Poznań 2015
•    Adaptacja libretta operowego na potrzeby realizacji scenicznej - kilka uwag od tłumacza, [in:] "Między Oryginałem a Przekładem", R. XIX, nr 4 (22), Cracow 2013
•    Emocje w muzyce - formy przekazu na przykładzie monologu Manon z IV aktu opery „Manon Lescaut” Giacomo Pucciniego, [in:] Emocje, ekspresja, poetyka - przegląd zagadnień, edited by D. Saniewska, Cracow 2013
•    Sonata Księżycowa op. 27 nr 2 Ludwiga van Beethovena w poetyckiej wersji Antonia Fogazzaro, "Studia Niemcoznawcze", edited by L. Kolago, t. XLV, Warsaw 2010
•    Literacka parafraza preludium do wagnerowskiego "Tristana i Izoldy" w powieści "Triumf śmierci" Gabriele D'Annunzio, "Studia Niemcoznawcze", edited by L. Kolago, t. XXXVIII. Warsaw 2008
•    Transkrypcja literacka dzieła muzycznego na przykładzie opowiadania R. Schumann [z op. 68] Antonia Fogazzaro, "Studia Niemcoznawcze", edited by L. Kolago, t. XXXV, Warsaw 2007