Sendłak/Grażyna Bacewicz, 8. Distant Travels and Family Matters

In 1956 Bacewicz spends a month in India as part of an artistic delegation. Her String Quartet No. 5 wins second prize at the 1956 International String Quartet Competition in Liège. In 1960 her Music for Strings, Trumpets and Percussion wins third prize at UNESCO’s International Rostrum of Composers. Her String Quartet No. 6 (her first composition to embrace serial technique) is premiered at the 1960 Warsaw Autumn Festival. Her mother and her husband die within a few years of each other.