The monograph concerns one of the most important trends in contemporary classical Polish music. The new romanticism represented the reaction to the crisis of the avantgarde in the 70s. It appeared in works by the 1933 generation Penderecki Grecki Kilar the Stalowa Wola generation Knapik Lason Krzanowski and others. This music matched tradition with contemporary techniques and strong emotionalism. Its romantic dimension and seriousness were in sheer contrast to the doublecoding of Postmodernism. It stemmed from the political situation in Poland during the Iron Curtain times. The book also focuses on the topics American Schonberg Rochberg and European contexts. The author also analyzes 104 compositions and 30 interviews incl. with Penderecki to present an even fuller picture.