About the Arranger
Mateusz Łuczak
Basic facts:
I come from Warsaw, Poland, and work as a translator and academic teacher.
In 2004, I received PhD in linguistics from the University of Warsaw.
Musical biography:
I learned to play guitar and piano as a teenager. In 1990, I first heard a Bruckner symphony and have been interested in the life and works of this composer ever since. In 2011-2014, I contributed a dozen or so reviews of concerts to the Polish classical music magazine Ruch muzyczny, including 4 reviews of performances of Bruckner symphonies.
In 2016, I published the first arrangements of 16 Bruckner works for guitar (Motets and Other Works for the guitar with tablatures) in a small Polish publishing house. In 2017, I described this publication in Bruckner Journal (Vol. XXI, No. 1, March 2017). Afterwards, I published corrigenda (errata - ang) to the book online. Since then, I have been working on improving the arrangements and preparing new ones. One result of this ongoing work is the present website.
In 2022-2023, I also prepared a guitar arrangement of the Ukrainian national anthem in two versions: 4-part and 3-part, and published it under Creative Commons license.
About my project
This is my individual project carried out in my spare time, completely unfunded and not supported by any institution or individual, except for a little help from my loved ones.
I started preparing the arrangements several years ago. I completed plenty of them in musical notation, but only a certain number of them have been verified with the original sources, checked in terms of practical performance and finally revised and edited. The process requires a lot of time, effort and dedication. At the same time, I have improved my guitar skills to find out many practical solutions.
The site will present ongoing deliverables of this project. So far, I have prepared over 30 pieces in the form of readable, printable, publishable and practically playable scores and here I am going to present recordings and descriptions of the pieces.
Because I am not a professional guitarist, the process of recording is going to take some time, considering the complexity of the scores and difficulties of playing the pieces. I believe, however, that it is worth making the effort.