Oslo

Lutosławski was a regular visitor to Norway, although rather for personal than professional reasons. He was esteemed there, of course, as a composer and a conductor, evidence to that effect including the three-day festival ‘Lutosławski – dagene’ (Lutosławski Days), held in 1990. In token of their recognition for the output of their Polish colleague, Norwegian composers elected him an honorary member of their union, and in 1991, when the First Stavanger Chamber Music Festival was held, he was invited there as the first ‘festival composer’. Above all, however, he and his wife had close family in that country. Oslo was home to Danuta Lutosławski’s son from her first marriage, who from his childhood had also been brought up by Witold, namely Marcin Bogusławski, with his wife Gabriela and their three daughters.