Sendłak/Grażyna Bacewicz, 9. A Final Creative Outpouring

1964 sees premieres of Bacewicz’s Quartet for Four Cellos (Warsaw Autumn Festival) and her ballet, Esik in Ostend (Poznań Opera). In 1965 her Musica Sinfonica in Tre Movimenti has its premiere in Stockholm and her Violin Concerto No. 7 in Brussels in 1966. Bacewicz starts teaching composition at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw. Contradizione is premiered in the US (1967) and In Una Parte is premiered in Havana (1968). In December 1968 Bacewicz travels to Armenia as part of a delegation of Polish composers. She finishes work on her collection of autobiographical short stories just days before she dies of a heart attack on 17 January 1969.