Lviv on the Move. A Journey Through the Sounds of History. Concert as part of the 9th Festival of Restored Music

Thursday, August 27, 2026 7:00 p.m. Castle of the Pomeranian Dukes in Szczecin 34 Korsarzy St., Szczecin passes and tickets Stanisław Łopuszyński – harpsichord The Festival of Restored Music is an event dedicated to music that, for various reasons, has disappeared from our concert halls, our memory, and our everyday cultural experience. We bring forgotten works, old performance traditions, unknown composers, and musical worlds back to life—worlds that for years remained hidden in archives, manuscripts, or local memory. Alongside these rediscovered masterpieces, we also present artists who creatively develop old traditions and give them new meaning. Why Szczecin? The history of our city is a history of constant encounters, migrations, and the intermingling of cultures. Here, every kind of music can feel at home. A unique encounter with the music of the former Eastern Borderlands—a world that blends Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish, and Austro-Hungarian traditions, and whose center remained Lviv for centuries. The program features works by composers associated with this city and, more broadly, with the lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: from the Renaissance dances of Jan of Lublin, through the virtuosic style of Franz Xaver Mozart (known as the “Lviv Mozart”), to the Romantic works of Mirecki, Wysocki, Ruckgabr, Paderewski, and Piotr Żelechowski’s Fantasia, rarely performed today. These compositions—once heard in salons, music schools, and the estates of Podolia and Volhynia—now exist mainly in archives and remain unknown to the general public. Performed live, they regain their color, emotion, and the unique idiom of the borderlands. However, the event is more than just a recital: it is a concert-story. Stanisław Łopuszyński—harpsichordist, improviser, and founder of the Jazzloviec Festival—will introduce you to the historical and cultural context of Lviv and the musical ensembles of the former Eastern Borderlands. This will be accompanied by a mini-lecture with slides, revealing forgotten traditions, local music centers, and the people who shaped the artistic fabric of these lands. The program will be complemented by stories you’d be hard-pressed to hear anywhere else: about the artist’s concert and cycling tours, humanitarian missions to Ukraine, music performed during the war, and daily life in places where culture and danger intertwine.