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Polish Composers
This is a list of notable and representative Polish composers. Note: This list should contain notable composers, best with an existing article on Wikipedia. If a notable Polish composer is missing and without an article, please add the name here. Middle Ages * Wincenty z Kielczy (before 1200-c. 1261) * Mikołaj z Radomia (15th century) * Piotr z Grudziądza (c. 1400-c. 1480) Renaissance * Sebastian z Felsztyna (c. 1480/1490-after 1543) * Nicolaus Cracoviensis (1st half of the 16th century) * Wacław z Szamotuł (c. 1526-1560) * Mikołaj Gomółka (1535-1591) * Marcin Leopolita (c. 1540-c.1589) * Cyprian Bazylik (c.1535-c. 1600) * Jan z Lublina (late 15th century-1540) * Jakub Polak (1540-1605) * Sebastian Klonowic (c. 1545-1602) * Krzysztof Klabon (c. 1550-after 1616) * Wojciech Długoraj (1557-1619) * Diomedes Cato (c. 1570-c. 1603) Baroque *Mikołaj Zieleński (1st half of the 17th century) *Adam Jarzębski (c. 1590-1649) *Franciszek Lilius (c. 1600- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikołaj Z Radomia
Mikołaj Radomski, also called Mikołaj z Radomia and Nicholas of Radom, was an early 15th-century Polish composer. He was connected with the court of Władysław Jagiełło and wrote polyphonic music renowned for its expression of religious contemplation. Life and career Mikołaj z Radomia was a Polish composer working in the first half of the 15th century, probably in Kraków, known only through his signatures on a few compositions: „N. de Radom”, „Nicolaus de Radom” and „Mycolay Radomsky”. Searches for the composer's identity have not brought any results so far. Hypotheses have been put forward in the literature (for example H. Musielak) linking the identity of Mikołaj with any person in the sources with that name (e.g. „Nicolaus clavicembalista dominae reginae Poloniae” from 1422, „Nicolaus Geraldi de Radom”, who studied in Kraków, where he gained his master's degree, and in the years 1389–91 was named in the Vatican acts as a spiritual person born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Długoraj
Wojciech Długoraj (c. 1557 - after 1619), also called Wiecesław Długoraj, Adalbert Długoraj and Gostinensis, was a Polish Renaissance composer and lutenist. Biography His birthplace is unknown, with Polish Gostyń and Ukrainian Gostynets as possibilities, stemming from Dlugoraj's Latin appellation "Gostinensis", but the variants of these toponyms are extremely common in Eastern Europe. He was initially active at the court of Samuel Zborowski, between 1583 and 1585 also at the royal court of Stefan Batory. Zborowski, Długoraj's first master, was so cruel that the lutenist fled his court. He found employment with a new master who treated him well, but was discovered and compelled to resume his duties with Zborowski. Długoraj was able to escape his plight when he found incriminating letters of his master's, which he transmitted to the king via Jan Zamoyski. Zborowski was eventually executed, but Długoraj was forced to flee to Germany Germany,, officially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krzysztof Klabon
Krzysztof Klabon (c. 1550 – c. 1616) was a Polish Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He was one of the most renowned instrumentalists of his time in Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou .... His extant works are: a cycle of lute songs (to texts by Grochowski) entitled ''Pieśni Kalliopy Slowienskiey. Ná teráznieysze, pod Byczyną, zwyćięstwo'' (''Songs of the Slavonic Calliope: on the recent victory at Byczyna''), one sacred piece, the five-part ''Kyrie paschalis'' and the soprano part of one other, ''Officium Sancta Maria.'' ReferencesShort Biography 1550s births 1610s deaths Polish composers Renaissance composers Polish lutenists Polish male classical composers {{poland-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Klonowic
Sebastian Fabian Klonowic (1545 Sulmierzyce – 29 August 1602 Lublin) was a Polish poet, composer and mayor of Lublin. Biography He studied at the University of Kraków. He was also known by his Latin name, Acernus, and wrote in both Polish and Latin. He first lived in Lwów, then he settled in Lublin. While in Lublin, he became mayor. He wrote attacks in Latin on the Jesuits. His Latin poems were filled with Latinized Polish words, and on the other hand his Polish poems were often made unintelligible by the use of Latinisms and Hellenisms literally translated. He lived his last years on the charity of the Jesuits. Famous works *''Roxolania'' (1584) — a description the people and land of Ruthenia Ruthenia or , uk, Рутенія, translit=Rutenia or uk, Русь, translit=Rus, label=none, pl, Ruś, be, Рутэнія, Русь, russian: Рутения, Русь is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin as one of several terms ... *''Flis, to Jest Spuszczani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakub Polak (musician)
Jakub Polak (c. 1545 - c. 1605), also known as Jakub Reys (Reis, de Rais, de Reiz, de Restz, de Retz, du Retz) and Jacques le Polonois, was a Polish lutenist and composer. He was notable for his service as court lutenist to Henry III of Poland and France."The Oxford Companion to Music" Scholes,P Oxford,OUP,1955 p823 Initially Polak served as one of the court musicians at Kraków, and after Henry III fled Poland, Polak joined him in Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ... in 1574. He was an author of several lute compositions, most notably preludies, fantasies, dances and several chansons. During his lifetime he was renowned for his lute improvisations. References External links Polak's ''Praeludium'' in .mid format 1540s births 1600s deaths Polish compos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Z Lublina
Jan z Lublina, or Joannis de Lublin, was a Polish composer and organist who lived in the first half of the 16th century. Not much is known about his life - he was a member of the Order of Canons Regular of the Lateran, circa 1540 he was possibly the organist at the convent in Kraśnik, near Lublin. Perhaps he is identical to one of the two Jans, the first of which received his master's degree in artibus et philosophia in 1499, and the second his baccalariatus in artibus in 1508 in the Kazimierz Academy in Krakow. From 1537 to 1548, he created the famous organ tablature, whose title is ''Tabulatura Ioannis de Lyublyn Canonic rumReg ariu de Crasnyk.'' This is the largest organ tablature in the world (more than 350 compositions and a theoretical treatise) and one of the earliest. It contains several compositions by Nicolaus Cracoviensis, as well as numerous intabulations of works written by Josquin, Heinrich Finck, Janequin, Ludwig Senfl, Claudin de Sermisy, Philippe Verdelot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyprian Bazylik
Cyprian Bazylik (c. 1535 in Sieradz – c. 1600) was a Polish composer, usually designated as C.B. or C.S. (Cyprian of Sieradz). Besides writing music, he was also a writer, poet, and printer.Michael Ostling -Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in ...2011 - Page 52 "First publ. at the press of the Calvinist humanist Cyprian Bazylik, who may also have been the author: unlike the other works discussed here, the Lawsuit was a sophisticated work of prose" Recordings * 10 songs, a capella, Bornus Consort, Marcin Bornus-Szczyciński. * 19 songs, Subtilior Ensemble, Cantilena Sieradz, Ars Nova, director :pl:Jacek Urbaniak References 1535 births 1600 deaths 16th-century Polish people 16th-century composers 16th-century Polish poets Renaissance composers Polish composers Polish male poets People from Sieradz Polish male classical composers {{Poland-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcin Leopolita
Marcin Leopolita (also Marcin z Lwowa; 1537) was one of the most eminent Polish composers of the 16th century. He attended the Jagiellonian University ( Collegium Maius) and may have studied under the Polish composer Sebastian z Felsztyna and Jan Jelen of Tuchola. He was born in Lwów in Kingdom of Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). By the age of 20 he was a member of the royal music ensemble at the court of Zygmunt August, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. apparently becoming court composer there in 1560. Few compositions of Leopolita have survived. Four motets, written in Latin, (''Cibavit eos'', ''Mihi autem'', ''Resurgente Christo'' and ''Spiritus Domini)'' are preserved in organ tablature; of these, ''Cibavit Eos'' can be restored with confidence to its original vocal form. All four works are known from a single source, a tablature formerly belonging to the Warsaw Musicological Society which now only survives as a photographic copy, the original having been destroyed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikołaj Gomółka
Mikołaj Gomółka (c. 1535 – after 30 April 1591, most probably 5 March 1609) was a Polish Renaissance composer, and member of the royal court of Sigismund II Augustus, where he was a singer, flutist and trumpeter. Gomółka was born in Sandomierz. Between 1545 and 1563 he stayed at the royal court, where he learned to play the flute, the 'sztort' (an old Polish wind instrument, prototype of the bassoon), the violin and the lute, and then he became a royal chapel musician with full rights. Having left the court he fulfilled various social and legal functions in Sandomierz; for some time he stayed at the court of the Kraków bishop Piotr Myszkowski (to whom he dedicated his work "Melodies for the Polish Psalter"); he conducted mining researches near Muszyna and also stayed at the court of Jan Zamoyski in Kraków, where he was still living on 30 April 1591; this is the last known date of his life. The only preserved work by Gomółka is a collection of 150 independent comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacław Z Szamotuł
Wacław is a Polish masculine given name. It is a borrowing of cz, Václav, Latinized as Wenceslaus. For etymology and cognates in other languages, see Wenceslaus. It may refer to: * Wacław Leszczyński *Wacław of Szamotuły * Wacław Hański *Wacław Michał Zaleski *Wacław Sierpiński *Wacław Kiełtyka * Wacław Gajewski * Wacław Szybalski *Wacław Maciejowski *Wacław Kopisto * Wacław Zawadowski *Wacław Micuta *Wacław Kuchar * Wacław Szymanowski *Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski (15 December 1784 – 14 May 1831) was a Polish explorer, poet, orientalist and horse expert.T. Miciński: "Emir Rzewuski" Early life Wacław Rzewuski was born 15 December 1784 in Lwów. He was the son of field Hetma ... * Wacław Cimochowski * Wacław Sieroszewski * Wacław Zagórski Other forms of Wenceslaus exist natively in Polish, but only as a surname, including Wącław, Węcław, and Więcław, as well as their respective phonetic spellings Woncław, Wencła ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaus Cracoviensis
Nicolaus Cracoviensis (or Mikołaj z Krakowa) was a 16th-century Polish composer. Not much is known about his life. His name appears in the Kraków University archives as organist at the Kraków court. The biggest part of his compositions is contained in two great Polish organ tablatures: by Jan z Lublina Jan z Lublina, or Joannis de Lublin, was a Polish composer and organist who lived in the first half of the 16th century. Not much is known about his life - he was a member of the Order of Canons Regular of the Lateran, circa 1540 he was possibly t ... (1537–48) and the '' Cracow Tablature'' (ca. 1548). They include his masses, motets, songs, dances and preludes. His works show Italian influence. The most known of his works is the choral work ''Aleć nade mną Wenus'' (''You, Venus, above me''). References External links * 16th-century births 16th-century deaths Polish composers Renaissance composers Polish male classical composers {{Poland-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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