A few months after the publication of the proceedings of this last colloquium, on September 20, 2020, Elżbieta Zapolska Chapelle, president of the Maria Szymanowska Society and initiator of the project Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831), a Woman of Europe, passed away. Until the end, Elżbieta will have worked to promote this first Polish composer-concertist, adored by her time. Like she said to Filip Lech on August 26, 2020 during an interview for the Mickiewicz Institute, a month before her death, Elżbieta had relaunched an editorial project in the form of an anthology of writings on Maria Szymanowska based on the four international conferences she had organized over the past decade.
Publication of the proceedings of the 4th International Symposium «Maria Szymanowska and her time» organized in 2019 by the Maria Szymanowska Society and the Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Paris