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DownloadWhat does this material present?Maria Kozłowa (1910-1999) – folk artist, animator of Lasowiak folklore, self-taught ethnographer, known as "Kolberg in a skirt" and "The Last Lasowiaczka". She was born in the village of Machów (now a district of Tarnobrzeg) as the daughter of Wiktoria née Sawarska and Wojciech Wiącek - a social and political activist, publicist and senator. From an early age, she wrote poems and painted. As a teenager, she ran an amateur village theatre and cabaret, in which she used the form of a folk song.
After graduating from the teacher's college, she ran a village common room and library and taught embroidery and folk painting to local girls. In 1949, she founded the Song and Dance Ensemble "Lasowiak", which performed throughout Polish and became a model for other folk groups. In 1950, at the Festival of Polish Music in Warsaw, Witold Lutosławski was enchanted by Lasowiacki songs. On the basis of them, he soon composed his "Little Suite".
After the open-pit sulphur mine was established in her...
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