Marian Sawa

Sawa composed around 1,000 pieces, including instrumental, vocal and vocal-instrumental works. He was a well-known and prolific organ composer (i.e. five organ concerts, sonatas, fantasies, preludies, toccatas, passacaglias). Many of his works evolved from a religious inspiration, including numerous pieces for a mixed choir and a men's choir a cappella, but also great cantata-oratorio forms (Via Crucis, Missa Claramontana, a few forms of Magnificat and Stabat Mater). In his music he often recalled Gregorian chant, Polish church songs and Polish folklore, sometimes combining them in one piece. Sawa's works have been recorded on over 40 CDs by, for example, Acte Preable and Musica Sacra Edition. His organ compositions have been performed by Andrzej Chorosiński, organist Joachim Grubich, Marietta Kruzel Sosnowska, Józef Serafin, Jan Szypowski, and Irena Wisełka-Cieślar. In 2006, on the first anniversary of Sawa's death, a Marian Sawa's Society was created, whose main goal is the promotion of the artist's works, publishing his works, and organizing concerts and festivals dedicated to his creative activity. After Sawa's death the owners of his works are Aleksandra and Radosław Sawa, who cooperate with the Marian Sawa's Society.