Musicologist, Professor of Warsaw University, where she worked in the Institute of Musicology. She obtained her doctorate in 1970, earned habilitation in 1983, and in 1991 was granted the title of professor extraordinarius. In the years of 1974-79 she held the position of the Deputy Director of the Institute, headed the Department of Music History in years 1988-2003, and was appointed Deputy Dean of the Faculty of History for the periods of 1986-1990 and 1993-1999.
In the forty years of her teaching career she has taught music history (from the Baroque to the early 20th century) in lectures and seminars, supervised MA (84) and Ph.D. (9) theses, reviewed a number of Ph.D. and habilitation dissertations. She also worked as a visiting Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, guest lecturer at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, the Warsaw Academy of Music, as well as at universities and institutions abroad (Mainz, Gottingen, Paris, la Châtre, Kiev, New Delhi). Since 1988 she has chaired the MAEO congresses, held at the Pomeranian Philharmonic Hall in Bydgoszcz. Since 2001 she has been heading the Advisory Board of the Frederic Chopin Institute in Warsaw.
The broad scope of her academic interests includes various methodological, theoretical, and historical issues, for which she adopts an interdisciplinary perspective. She published a number of books, e.g. Beethoven’s Piano Texture, 1972; A Chronicle of Music Events in Poland, 1945-1972, 1974; Pianists and Piano Compositions in the 19th-Century, 1991; A Student’s Dictionary of Music, 1991; Music History and Interpretation..., 1993, 1995; On Music Reception and Resonance: Chopin’s Sketches, 2008, the total number of 250 works, including articles and entries in music encyclopedias, reviews, and others. Particularly important are writings on piano music, pianists, Frederic Chopin, and music reception. She edited the following facsimile and source editions might be singled out as especially significant: 24 Preludes Op. 28 (1999), Sonata in H Minor Op. 58 (2005, co-edited), and Etudes Op. 10 No. 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 (2008) by Chopin. She is also the editor and co-editor of musicological books and journals, e.g. the 5 volumes of Chopin and His Friends (1995-1999).

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