Erhardt Ludwik, *29 April 1934 Kościeszki (near Grodno), †11 March 2022, Polish publicist and music critic. Between 1952 and 1956, he studied musicology at the University of Warsaw. From 1957, he was a member of the editorial board of “Ruch Muzyczny”; from 1970, he served as its editor-in-chief. Between 1958 and 1971, he worked with Warsaw television. From 1954, he published articles and essayistic columns on contemporary musical life in various magazines. He also reconstructed A. Salieri’s opera Axur, re d’Ormus (based on an adaptation by W. Bogusławski, staged in Poznań in 1967) and translated the libretto of K. Penderecki’s opera The Devils of Loudun into Polish.
Balety I. Strawińskiego, Krakow 1962
J. Brahms, Krakow 1969, 2nd edition 1975
Papierowe nosy, Warsaw 1970 (a selection of columns)
Poniżej muzyki, Kraków 1972 (a selection of articles)
Muzyka w Polsce, Warsaw 1974, also in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German
Spotkania z Pendereckim, Krakow 1975
I. Strawiński, Warsaw 1978
Sztuka dźwięku, Warsaw 1980
