Zofia Lissa

After the war she remained in Moscow, where she was offered the position of cultural attaché at the Polish embassy.

Lissa initiated the organization of the Musica Antiqua Europae Orientalis Festival in Bydgoszcz (1963) and the accompanying international musicological congress, which she chaired.

In 1966 with Jerome Feicht, she organized a documentation center and initiated an inventory of early Polish music which resulted in the issue of the series Antiquitates Musicae in Polonia.

During her studies, she became involved with left-wing circles and actively participated in the ideological debate on the aesthetics and methodology of Marxist approaches to musicology.

Her works are in large part testimony to the era in which they were generated, and controversial because methodological approach was based on Marxist ideology.