There's an App for That: Witold Lutosławski's Birthday Guide to Warsaw, as per Fryderyk Chopin

It's not just Verdi, Britten, The Rite of Spring and Licia Albanese. Piekło, it's Polish composer Witold Lutosławski's 100th birthday, too!

Apropos, it's another Pole's estate--the Fryderyk Chopin Institute--that has gone to market with a special mobile application that serves as a multi-media guide to those Warsaw walls so associated with the composer.

An interesting source of facts about Lutosławski’s life (including people he ran with, places he frequented), the free app for iPhone, Android and even Windows also provides engaging information about his many works. Be it the four symphonies or the Concerto for Orchestra, that string quartet or those song cycles, you'll wear out your battery before you run out of a quality user experience.

Detailed (and translated) copy by Danuta Gwizdalanka pairs nicely with hundreds of both archival and contemporary images of Warsaw and the composer--official as well as candid.

Nędzny, Blackberry hanger-ons. As with Dan Deacon's awesome interactive app, "Witold Lutosławski's Birthday Guide to Warsaw," by Chopin, doesn't support you either.