• Duration: 12'
• Instrumentation: 0000-0000-archi (11.0.4.2.1)
• Year: 1977
• Type: parts, score

Musica domestica, dedicated to Agnieszka, Katarzyna and Joanna, was written on commission from the Warsaw Autumn Festival for Jerzy Maksymiuks Polish Chamber Orchestra. The premiere took place on 22 September 1977 during the 21st edition of the Festival. In 1978, the work received 2nd Prize at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. In his commentary, the composer wrote: Musica domestica is a one-movement composition comprised of an array of sections which could be described as waiting and events. Despite the fact that those waitings and events could suggest a personal, home sound diary, they are in essence not such. The works ambiguous title does not in principle describe the content which in the popular understanding ought to be linked with it. States of stillness, waiting, prepare successive actions of events which have various formal and technical assumptions. So, why the title Musica domestica? I attach great importance to the places in which I live - I do not always live and engage in my activities where I would like to live and engage in my activities - I have my images of places which are ideal, though perhaps non-existent, which I would like to call my home - the home of my imagination. P.S. It may be that the critical and biting listener will want to utilize the expressions waiting and event ironically, to state that for the entire time, the work was waiting for an event which it did not experience; for that person, then, it will be a waiting - as happens so often in our life - without events.