Mikołaj z Chrzanowa (1485–1562) was a Polish composer and organist of the Renaissance. Little is known about his early life, but he was a student at the

Kraków Academy The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

in 1507, receiving his baccalaureate in 1513. In 1518 he became organist at Wawel Cathedral, a post he held until his death. In addition to his duties as an organist, he directed the cathedral choir—the Kapela Rorantystów—and supervised the construction of organs (for example, he traveled to Biecz in 1543 to oversee the work there). His only known work is a

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 Margar ...

, ''Protexisti me, Deus'', which survives in tablature notation in the 16th-century Wawel Part-Books. A later organ tablature of the same composition appears in the Łowicz Organ Tablature of 1580, with the initials N.Ch. which are presumed to indicate the composer.Katarzyna Morawska. "Poland." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/22001 (accessed December 15, 2011).

References

* Mała encyklopedia muzyki, Stefan Śledziński (red. naczelny), PWN, Warszawa 1981, (in Polish)

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1485 births 1562 deaths Polish composers {{Poland-composer-stub