Music and Greatness). In his books, Mahler and Romantyzm bez granic (Romanticism without borders), Pociej described three stages of musical imagination in the Romantic composers: musical craftsmanship, emotionality, and “pure inwardness revealed in music” (expression of objective feelings so that they are experienced spiritually by the listener). The attainment of this third stage he asserted to be rare, appearing in the works of (Schubert, Mahler and Bruckner). In 2003, an M.A. dissertation about Bohdan Pociej's musical writing was submitted at the Department of Musicology, University of Warsaw. Works Klawesyniści francuscy (French harpsichord players), PWM, Kraków 1969 Jan Sebastian Bach – muzyka i wielkość (Johann Sebastian Bach – Music and Greatness) PWM, Kraków 1972 Lutosławski a wartość muzyki (Lutosławski and the value of music), PWM, Kraków 1976 Szkice z późnego romantyzmu, (Sketches on late Romanticism) PWM, Kraków 1978 Gustav Mahler, PWM, Kraków 1992 Wagner, PWM, Kraków 2004 Bycie w muzyce. Próba opisania twórczości Henryka Mikołaja Góreckiego (Being in music. An attempted description of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki's creative output), Academy of Music in Katowice 2005 Z perspektywy muzyki. Wybór szkiców (From the perspective of music. A selection of sketches), Biblioteka "Więzi", Warszawa 2005 Romantyzm bez granic (Romanticism without borders), Biblioteka "Więzi", Warszawa 2008 Pociej also contributed to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. References Leszek Polony: Pociej Bohdan in: Encyklopedia Muzyczna PWM (Encyclopedia of Music), biographical part edited by Elżbieta Dziębowska, vol. „pe-r”, PWM, Kraków 2004 External links biographical profile at Polmic.pl 1933 births 2011 deaths Polish musicologists