Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Witold Lutosławski1

Witold Lutosławski1

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/January 25, 2023 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:50, 15 December 2022 (UTC)



Witold Lutosławski was a Polish composer and conductor. His compositions include symphonies, various orchestral works, chamber works, concertos, and song cycles, some of which he orchestrated. During his youth, Lutosławski studied piano and composition in Warsaw. His music reached its peak with the Concerto for Orchestra and Dance Preludes. From the late 1950s he began developing his characteristic composition techniques, which incorporated his own methods of building harmonies from small groups of musical intervals. He engaged in twelve-tone and aleatoric music while preserving traditional melodic and harmonic techniques. During World War II, after escaping German capture, Lutosławski earned income by playing the piano in Warsaw bars. After the war, Stalinist authorities banned his First Symphony for being "formalist". In the 1980s, Lutosławski gave artistic support to the Solidarity movement. In 1994 he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen is a classical song that was TFA Oct. 23. While music is a common topic for TFA, composers/song writers seem to appear less often, especially ones that are non-American/Western.
 * Main editors: FAC nom'ed it,  made significant edits it during the URFA/2020 process
 * Promoted: September 10, 2005. FAR "Kept" Oct. 24, 2007. URFA/2020 "Satisfactory" Nov. 29, 2021.
 * Reasons for nomination: 110th birthday. This is a TFA re-run from 2005. There was a previous TFA nom, which is why this page is weirdly formatted.
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 16:42, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Vida0007 (talk) 18:31, 14 December 2022 (UTC)