Koffler’s contributions to Warsaw’s Muzyka (a periodical published in 1924–1938) were not numerous (seven in total, printed in 1930–1936). These were: two articles, a letter to the editor, two responses to the monthly’s questionnaires, a polemic, and a report. This was a time when Koffler edited two periodicals of his own (Orkiestra and later also Echo). As for Muzyka, it printed more texts about than by Koffler. An anonymous 1930 review of his Streichtrio, Op. 10, was followed in the next issue by the composer’s brief response in which he explained the work’s structure. Interest in Koffler’s output continued, since in the same year Muzyka informed he had ‘completed a sonatina for piano and a little symphony in three movements’ (‘New Works’, Muzyka 4, 20 Apr. 1930, 263).
Muzyka
In his own articles, Koffler twice tackled the issue of the radio’s role in musical culture (1932 1935). He responsed to Muzyka’s polls titled ‘Polish Music under Threat’ (examining the reasons for the decline of musical life in Poland, 1934) and ‘My Greatest Musical Thrill’, 1935). His only report for Muzyka concerned a competition held by the International Society for Contemporary Music in Prague.
1936 saw a polemic on new music phenomena (in Warsaw’s Muzyka snd then in the Przemyśl journal Orkiestra) taking place between Koffler and the Lwów-based musicologist Stefania Łobaczewska. The latter associated the output of Alban Berg with specific (leftist) political views – a claim that Koffler resolutely opposed since he viewed musical phenomena as separate from politics.