In addition to the composers, since 1948 the association was also supposed to include musicologists, who formed a separate section.
[1] The Polish government expected that the organization would promote the introduction of the doctrine of Socialist Realism.
The “Warsaw Autumn”, the festival for contemporary music in Poland, has been held every year since 1956.
The association consists of eight branches in Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Poznań, Warsaw Wroclaw.
Since 2001, the association has been running the Polish Center for Music Information (Polish Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej), a member of the International Association of Music Information Centres in Brussels.