Bartłomiej Pękiel (; fl. from 1633; d. ca. 1670) was a
Polish composer of
baroque music
Baroque music ( or ) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transit ...
.
Biography
The writer and composer
Johann Mattheson claimed that the composer was German and his name is sometimes recorded as "Peckel". Pękiel served the court in
Warsaw from about 1633. After the
Swedish invasion of Poland in 1655 he then moved to
Wawel Cathedral Chapel in
Kraków, where he was
Kapellmeister after the death of
Franciszek Lilius in 1657. After 1664 there are few references to him; the next Kapellmeister was appointed in 1670.
29 of Pękiel's works survive, mostly in manuscript. The musicologist Bartłomiej Gembicki divides these into two stages; early baroque (Warsaw) and church music in the style of (Kraków). He wrote the only Polish church
oratorio , on the topic of
The Last Judgement
The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (; ar, یوم القيامة, translit=Yawm al-Qiyāmah or ar, یوم الدین, translit=Yawm ad-Dīn, ...
.
Works
Choral
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CATB)
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Motet
In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to Margare ...
(ATTB)
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Instrumental
* (for 3
viole da gamba, six voices and
basso continuo
Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression. The phrase is often shortened to continuo, and the instrumentalists playing the ...
)
* ("Three Polish Dances"): Uroczysty (moderato) - Dostojny (andante) - Wesoły (allegro)
* (for five voices and basso continuo)
Notable recordings
* ''Bartłomiej Pękiel'',
The Sixteen
The Sixteen are a United Kingdom-based choir and period instrument orchestra; founded by Harry Christophers, they started as an unnamed group of sixteen friends in 1977, giving their first billed concert in 1979.
The group performs early Eng ...
, COR16110, June 2013
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pekiel, Bartlomiej
Year of birth missing
1670s deaths
Polish Baroque composers
Polish classical composers
Polish male classical composers
17th-century classical composers
17th-century male musicians