I am not publishing my feature articles on music from 1955–58. What is included in this volume are just loosely connected excerpts, a selection of what I wrote in that period, especially for Przegląd Kulturalny”. 

This is how Zygmunt Mycielski began his introduction to the book. However, as it turned out years later, the author intended it to be a selection of feature articles published by him in Przegląd Kulturalny during the political thaw period, but censors intervened and prevented the book from being published as originally intended. Notatki o muzyce i muzykach [Notes on Music and Musicians] is a compromise, a collection of Mycielski’s notes, the complete version of which was published in 2022 under the originally planned title Znaki zapytania [Question Marks] - see below.