ABSTRACT
Lecture 1: De Staat [The Republic] I would like to begin these lectures by explaining some things about myself and by presenting to you a part of my work De Staat. I have an impression that some of you may already know it since this piece was performed in Warsaw in 1977.2 However, I would like you to listen to it now because it is kind of my passport, my visa. I have been known as a composer of very loud and fast music and this piece is both; therefore, it provides us with a good excuse to talk about my musical “childhood.” It does not mean, of course, that this is really my childhood: De Staat is only 10 years old. You can imagine, however, that now that I am 46 years old, a piece I composed at the age of 37 seems very distant.
