Under the pseudonym "Derwid", Lutoslawski writes utility music: for radio, theatre, film as well as popular music. Apart from songs for children to listen to, he writes "childish songs" for them to sing. In composing this kind of music, he is motivated by financial considerations. He receives the Warsaw City Prize. The premiere of his Symphony No. 1is held on 6 April.
1949
The authorities demand that artists commit themselves to building socialism in Poland, by composing works that are as easy as possible - songs for a mass audience. Refusal to write them was recognized as opposition to the people's government and had serious consequences. Such rebellion condemned musicians to financial poverty and artistic oblivion. Performed at the inauguration of the Fourth Chopin Competition, Symphony No. 1is hailed a "formalist" piece and its performances are forbidden.
1949-58
Lutoslawski's original musical language crystallizes in this period - writing for himself, the composer creates his unique, individual system of composition. He makes his money from works based on folklore. The premiere of the Overture for Stringstakes place in Prague on 9 November 1949.
1951
20 April marks the first performance of the Little Suitefor chamber orchestra. The work is based on four folk melodies from the Rzeszow region. The premiere performance of the Silesian Triptych, a work based on the folklore of Silesia, takes place in December.
1952
唯一一次指揮別人的作品 - 指揮波蘭無線交響樂團(Polish Radio Great Symphony Orchestra)演出海頓交響曲NO.92。
By accident, he hears John Cage's Piano Concerto, and the idea of applying chance in music plays a key role in the process of shaping Lutoslawski's composing technique. His "controlled aleatorism" is born.
1961
The premiere in Venice of the first work based on the aleatoric technique - Jeux vÉnitiens. Lutoslawski is hailed as an avant-garde artist. He will be recognized as a classic 10 years later.
1962
Lutoslawski receives the first-degree Artistic Award of the Minister of Culture and Art. In May, the composer is a success once again at the International Composers' Tribune, where his Jeux vÉnitiens, written using the new technique called controlled aleatorism, wins first place.
1963
The artist receives first prize from the International Music Council and the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.
1964
The composer receives more awards: a first-degree State Prize, the Serge Koussevitzky International Recording Award, and again places first at the International Composers' Tribune in Paris for his Trois Poemes d'Henri Michaux.
1965
The String Quartetpremieres in Stockholm on 12 March - this is Lutoslawski's first chamber work written using the controlled aleatorism technique. The premiere of Paroles TissÉestakes place in Aldeburgh on 20 June.
1966
Lutoslawski is awarded the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Prize in New York. This prize was founded in 1964 in order to promote writers, artists and scientists of Polish descent, regardless of their place of residence. By 1998, when the programme was closed, 451 Polish people had received the prize.
1967
Lutoslawski receives more prizes: the Gottfried-von-Herder-Preis in Vienna, and the Leonie Sonning Music Prize in Copenhagen. On 9 June he conducts his Symphony No. 2in Katowice. The composer's mother Maria dies in Warsaw on 17 October.
1968
Yet another success for Lutoslawski at the International Composers' Tribune in Paris: his Symphony No. 2wins first place. This is also the year of the premiere of an important work in his output - Livre pour orchestre.
1970
10/14 大提琴協奏曲在倫敦首演。
1971
第一次獲頒榮譽博士學位-克里斯蘭音樂學院(Cleveland Institute of Music), 在巴黎獲得三項獎項。
The artist accepts an honorary doctor's degree from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. The premieres take place of Novelette, Double Concerto, and Epitaphfor oboe and piano - an extremely important work for the development of the composer's late style.
The composer receives the Gravemeyer Award for Music Composition from the University of Louisville, the Premio Reina Sofia de Espana, and the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society. Lutoslawski donates these prizes to fund scholarships for young Polish composers and to help sick children.
The Witold Lutoslawski International Composers' Competition is inaugurated in January. The composer receives honorary doctor's degrees from the universities of Boston and Strasbourg. At the Warsaw Autumn festival, he meets with Andrzej Panufnik, who has been living in London for many years. This is also the year of the premiere of the Tarantellafor baritone and piano.
1991
獲匹茲堡交響樂團頒發署名獎。獲匹茲堡大學頒發榮譽博士學位。 6/8教宗在華沙接見。 8/8作品Chantefleurs et Chantefables首演。
1992
獲曼徹斯特音樂家學會頒獎。 編寫作品Subito，最後一部作品。
1993
The premiere of Symphony No. 4is held in February - Lutoslawski conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. In April, he receives the "Nobel Prize" for music - the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm, the Gold Card, and the Music Award of the Royal Philharmonic Society in London. He takes part in the "Warsaw Autumn"festival for the last time on 25 September. He goes to Tokyo in November, to collect the Kyoto Prize in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences. He gives his last concert on 30 October in Montreal. He starts working on a piece he will not finish - the Violin Concerto.
