2019 will be the Maria Szymanowska Year in Poland. Thus decided the Polish Senate in its plenary session of 13 December 2018 by a unanimous vote of its members. Elisabeth Zapolska Chapelle, President of the Maria Szymanowska Society in Paris, received from the hands of Stanisław Karczewski, Chairman of the Polish Senate, the official text of the resolution on the Maria Szymanowska Year. (Photo credit : M.Józefaciuk - Chancellery of the Polish Senate)
A collection of songs by Maria Szymanowska, edited in three languages by Elisabeth Zapolska Chapelle, has been published in Kassel by FURORE Verlag. This prestigious German music publishing house, headed by Renate Matthei, has specialized in the promotion of women composers of all eras for more than thirty years.