Chłopicka Regina, née Rudnicka, *19 August 1934 Jaryczów Nowy (Lwów County, present-day Ukraine), †25 October 2021 Krakow, Polish music theorist and teacher. She studied piano at the Instrumental Faculty from 1957 to 1959, and music theory at the PWSM (State Higher School of Music, now the Academy of Music) in Kraków from 1959 to 1965. In 1998, she obtained her first-level teaching qualification with her thesis Twórczość Krzysztofa Pendereckiego. Między sacrum a profanum. From 1999 to 2004, she served as Dean of the Faculty of Composition, Conducting, and Music Theory, and, as an associate professor at the Academy of Music in Kraków, she lectured on the history of early music. In addition, she was a guest lecturer at Polish and foreign universities, including the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1998, the F. Rabelais University in Tours in 1996 and 1998, and the International Bach Academy in Eugene (Oregon). She was a member of the Société Française d’Analyse Musicale (from 1990) and the Société Internationale du Théâtre, de l’Opéra et du Ballet (from 1991). At her initiative, the collective volume Studies in Penderecki, which she co-edited with R. Robinson, began to be published in Princeton in 1998. She took part in numerous international scholarly conferences, including those in Paris (1987), Tours (1995, 1999), London (1997), Chemnitz (1999), Ljubljana (1996, 1997, 1999), and Århus (2000). She was also a member of the team carrying out the international research program Musical Life in Europe 1600–1900, organized under the auspices of the European Science Foundation in Strasbourg. In her research, Chłopicka focused on Polish contemporary music, particularly the works of K. Penderecki and W. Lutosławski. She also explored the theme of death in music (including passions and requiems) and the issues of 20th-century musical theatre in the broader context of theatre history and theory. Among her honours are the Minister of Culture and Art Award, 2nd Class (1978), the Gold Cross of Merit (1984), and the Silver Medal “Gloria Artis” for Merits to Culture (2014).
Krzysztof Penderecki między sacrum a profanum. Studia nad twórczością wokalno-instrumentalną, Krakow 2000
around 50 articles in collective works, including:
Witold Lutosławski “Pięć pieśni do słów Iłłakowiczówny”, in: Pieśń z orkiestrą lub zespołem kameralnym 1876–1976, «Zeszyty Naukowe Akademii Muzycznej w Krakowie» No. 2, 1977
Tradycja gatunkowa w “Pasji według Św. Łukasza” Krzysztofa Pendereckiego, in: Muzyka w muzyce, «Spotkania Muzyczne w Baranowie» vol. 2, ed. T. Malecka and L. Polony, Krakow 1980
Krzysztofa Pendereckiego twórczość religijna, in: Muzyka religijna w Polsce, «Materiały i Studia» vol. 10, ed. J. Pikulik, Warsaw 1988
Le caractère dramatique et théâtral des oratorio-cantates de Penderecki, in: Le rôle des formes primitives et composites dans la dramaturgie européenne, ed. I. Mamczarz, Paris 1992
Les rapports des “Paroles tissées” de Witold Lutosławski avec la tradition littéraire et musicale, in: Dramaturgie et collaboration des arts au theatre, Florence 1993
Krzysztof Penderecki’s The Polish Requiem, in: Music Theory — Explorations, Applications, vol. 3, ed. R. Shankovich, Pittsburgh 1994
The Torture and the Stake in the “Devils of Loudun” by Krzysztof Penderecki, «Théâtre, Opéra, Ballet» II/3, ed. I. Mamczarz, Paris 1996
Inspiracje pozamuzyczne we wczesnym okresie twórczości Krzysztofa Pendereckiego, in: Dzieło muzyczne między inspiracją a refleksją, ed. J. Krassowski, Gdańsk 1998
Stylistic Phases in the Work of K Penderecki, «Studies in Penderecki» vol. 1, ed. R. Robinson and Ch., Princeton 1998
Penderecki’s Musical Theatre, in: The Path of Music at the End of Millenium. Achievements and Perspectives, ed. P. Kurecz, Ljubljana 1998
Les liens entre la musique de Penderecki et la tradition de ritualité religieuse, in: Musique et Rite, ed. M. Biget-Mainfroy, “Les Cahiers du CIREM” 1999 Nos. 44–46
Teatr muzyczny Krzysztofa Pendereckiego, in: Opera polska XX wieku, ed. M. Jabłoński, H. Lorkowska, J. Stęszewski, Poznań 1999
Claude Debussy – Aquarelles (Paul Verlaine), in: Pieśń artystyczna narodów Europy/European Solo Song, «Muzyka i Liryka» iss. 8, ed. M. Tomaszewski, Krakow 1999
Paradise Lost. A Contemporary Interpretation of the Biblical Story of Salvation oraz The Black Mask. A Contemporary Expressionistic Vision of Danse Macabre, in: Krzysztof Penderecki’s Music in the Context of 20th-Century Theatre, ed. T. Malecka, Krakow 1999
