Słowa kluczowe: music and topics, theories of musical topos, content of a music work, musical semantics, topical music analysis, Bernardo Pasquini, partimento, basso continuo, harpsichord, fugue, Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Jean-Marie Leclair, violin music, musical duels, violin concerto, Józef Wieniawski, Henryk Wieniawski, Polish music, Ruggero Leoncavallo, I Medici, Italian opera, veristic opera, verismo, Literaturoper, 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, Jewish music, instrumental music, John Zorn, Radical Jewish Culture, contemporary music, Piano-playing technique, piano skills, pianist’s hand