Słowa kluczowe: piano playing technique, piano workshop, pianist’s hand, Jewish music, instrumental music, John Zorn, Radical Jewish Culture, contemporary music, music and topics, theories of musical topos, content of a musical piece, musical semantics, topical music analysis, Bernardo Pasquini, partimento, basso continuo, harpsichord, fugue, Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Jean-Marie Leclair, violin music, musical duels, violin concerto, Joseph Wieniawski, Henryk Wieniawski, Polish music, Ruggero Leoncavallo, I Medici, italian opera, veristic opera, verismo, literary opera, contemporary opera, libretto, librettology, Aleksander Nowak, Olga Tokarczuk, Spatial music, spatiality, the metaphor of movement, carnality, musical experience, Łódź ghetto, Holocaust, cultural life, World War II