Sendłak/Grażyna Bacewicz, 4. War and Resistance

Bacewicz continues to compose throughout World War II in Warsaw and performs her Sonata for Solo Violin at an underground concert. She gives birth to a daughter in 1942. She describes the horrors of wartime Warsaw in a letter to her brother, Vytautas. After the war, she takes a post at the Conservatoire in Łódź, teaching violin and music theory. She is voted onto the peer jury at the Musicians’ Union.