Tożsamość kompozytorska Krzysztofa Olczaka wobec kategorii elementarnych i dystynktywnych

Krzysztof Olczak is currently one of the pillars of Gdańsk musical life. His numerous achievements oblige us to widen our reflection about his music. In this case the key idea is his composer’s identity, which is growing out of three premises: socio-historical, philosophical and musicological. These points of view, ordered systematically, allowed for the clarification of the notion of com-poser’s identity and positioning it in relation to the creative achievements of the composer viewed in a comprehensive biographical, historical and personality-related perspective. It turned out that an adequate tool for a thorough study of Krzysztof Olczak’s works is the concept by Mieczysław Tomaszewski, which says that the reading of the elementary and distinctive categories is an important platform for understanding musical work. From thus specified fields of observation there emerged Olczak’s composer’s profile in the context of its most crucial, identity-defining properties.