Biegański Krzysztof, *16 December 1936 Warsaw, †20 November 1967 Warsaw, Polish musicologist and conductor. He studied musicology at the University of Warsaw (graduation 1959) and at the University of Poitiers under S. Corbin. He studied conducting under S. Wisłocki at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw (graduating with honours in 1963) and under S. Celibidache at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and under F. Ferrara in Venice. In 1967, he obtained his doctorate at the University of Warsaw under H. Feicht on the basis of his dissertation Gnieźnieński zabytek monodii cheironomicznej z przełomu XI i XII w. Rkp. 149 Biblioteki Kapitulnej w Gnieźnie. From 1959, he was an assistant and, in 1967, an adjunct at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw, where he had been in charge of cataloguing early music in Poland since 1957 and had served as scientific secretary of «Antiquitates Musicae in Polonia» since 1960. In addition, he was a lecturer in conducting and conductor of the symphony orchestra at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw.
As a leading Polish chorister of the younger generation, Biegański focused his academic work on research into Gregorian chant in Poland. His main work is a monumental source edition, produced in collaboration with J. Woronczak, of the most valuable surviving monument of cheironomic monody in Poland, the Gniezno Missale plenarium, the first study of this kind in Polish musicology. His dissertations on Chopinology and contemporary musical culture are also highly valued.
Literature: E. Dziębowska Krzysztof Biegański (1936–1967), “Muzyka” 1967 no. 4.
Technika dźwiękowa w „Metopach” i „Maskach” Karola Szymanowskiego, “Muzyka” 1957 no. 4
Filharmonia Narodowa, Krakow 1960
The National Philharmonic Warsaw, English translation M. Abrahamowicz, Krakow 1959
Elementy skalowości ludowej w mazurkach Chopina i ich konsekwencje harmoniczne, in: F.F. Chopin, ed. Z. Lissa, «Prace Instytutu Muzykologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego» Warsaw 1960
Piętnasty rok Instytutu Muzykologii w Warszawie, “Ruch Muzyczny” 1962 no. 19
Evolution de l’attitude de Chopin à l’égard du folklore (suivant ses mazurkas), in: The Book of the First International Musicological Congress, devoted to the Works of F. Chopin 16th–22nd February 1960, ed. Z. Lissa, Warsaw 1963
Gnieźnieńskie “Missale plenarium” jako przykład zabytku izolowanego, “Muzyka” 1966 no. 3/4
Fragment jednego z najstarszych zabytków diastematycznych w Polsce, in: Studia H. F., Krakow 1967
Biblioteka Muzyczna Zamku w Łańcucie. Katalog, Krakow 1968
Liturgical and Secular Elements in Medieval Liturgical Drama, w: Report of the Tenth Congress Ljubljana 1967, ed. D. Cvetko, Międzynarodowe Towarzystwo Muzykologiczne, Kassel 1970
synthetic studies of the history of Polish music (as a whole or certain periods) in: K.H. Wörner Geschichte der Musik, Göttingen 1965
Renesans. Barok, in: Muzyka polska. Informator, ed. S. Śledziński, Krakow 1968
Polska – muzyka, in: WEP, vol. 9, Warsaw 1967
in addition, articles about music on the radio, the work of A. Tansman, and others
compilation of the edition:
Missale plenarium Bibl. Capit. Gnesnensis MS 149, eds. K. B. and J. Woronczak, «Antiquitates Musicae in Polonia» 11–12, Warsaw 1970–72
