Nicolaus Cracoviensis (or Mikołaj z Krakowa) was a 16th-century Polish

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

. Not much is known about his life. His name appears in the

Kraków University 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 ...

archives as organist at the

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court. The biggest part of his compositions is contained in two great Polish

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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'').

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* 16th-century births 16th-century deaths Polish composers Renaissance composers Polish male classical composers {{Poland-composer-stub