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Frederick Hintz (1809-90), who came to the Kingdom of Poland from Prussia, was one of the leading representatives of the musical industry in Kalisz before the arrival in that town of the Fibiger family, whose pianos and pianofortes, produced from 1878, quickly came to dominate the local market. He was the second piano builder from Kalisz after Georg Lindemann (c. 1792-1849) whose instuments have survived...
In traditional African communities we encounter a somewhat different perception of music from that found in the societies of the West. Firstly, it is perceived mainly in social and not aesthetic terms; secondly, interaction and communication which take place through music are of primary significance. Music fulfils functions which in other kinds of communities are entrusted to a variety of institutions:...
Musical instruments were very rare symbols pictured on the Jewish tombstones in the Central Europe during last few centuries. More often were they painted as an illustration to Psalms 137 (136) and 150 on the inside synagogue's walls since the 18th century. Most of those temples where made of wood. No such wooden synagogue and only a dozen or so stone ones survived the World War II. However, some...
The article reports the results of an archival search in the 'Archiwum Glówne Akt Dawnych' (The Central Archive od Historical Records) in Warsaw. The source was: 'Ksiegi metrykalne wyznania mojzeszowego z terenów tzw. zabuzanskich z lat 1814-1939 (Registers of Jewish Faith from the Area beyond the Bug, 1814-1939) (Set No 300/I-II: documents Nos: 374 (ref. 1891), 124 (ref. 2200), 58 (ref. 2205) and...
The Wroclaw Codex (WarU 5892) belongs to a family of Central European mensural codices originating from the end of the 15th century and demonstrating a rich musical culture in the regions of Saxony, Silesia and Bohemia (musical manuscripts BerlS 40021, LeipU 1494, WarU 5892, HradKM 7). The present study focuses on transmission of imported polyphonic repertory within this area, and especially on the...
The National Museum in Warsaw holds 36 plainchant sources: 6 liturgical books and 30 fragments. These manuscripts are dispersed throughout various departments of the Museum and do not constitute a cohesive collection. They come from various periods (from the thirteenth to the end of the seventeenth century), and differ in provenance (Poland, Silesia, Germany, Italy), contents (antiphonals, graduals,...
The concept of melancholy is inextricably linked to questions about the nature of the human psyche: emotions and feelings. In spite of different views as to the origins of melancholy, descriptions of this condition throughout history are generally similar, and differ merely in details. It is a frequently employed, highly suggestive term, aptly describing a certain kind of reality. It has come into...
Józef Kazimierz Hofmann (1876-1957), the famous Polish pianist, teacher, composer and inventor, was one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. He spent most of his life in the United States. He gave concerts, composed, taught, and was also Director of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. The first articles and press notes about Józef Hofmann were published in 1957 by Stefan Litauer...
Both by its text as by its musical setting, the motet for the Virgin, 'Illibata dei virgo nutrix', of Josquin des Prez mirrors particular fundamentals of Christian Faith, ideated by means of elements from the language of later medieval symbolism; in particular number symbolism. Totals of textlines and syllables, of letter values and number of notes stay to each other in a close connection, by which...
This article aims to reconstruct the musical practice at the court of bishop Hieronim Rozrazewski, one of the most outstanding representatives of Polish church dignitaries in the second half of the sixteenth century. A knowledge of music, acquired during his studies in France and in Rome, combined with an obvious love of this branch of the arts, enabled Rozrazewski to promote musical culture (and...
Between 1863 and 1913, the Warsaw- based publishing house of Gebethner & Wolff issued six collected editions of Chopin's works. Unparalleled in European musik editing, this body of sources invites a historical and aesthetic enquiry. Based on a detailed analysis of the musical text of six editions dated 1863, 1873, 1880, 1882, 1902, and 1913, which focus on pitch, rhythm, dynamics and fingering,...
The court theatre at Oels (today Olesnica), founded by Duke Frederick Augustus of Brunswick and built in 1793 according to Berlin models, was one of the few examples of private theatrical activity in Silesia. Initially, weekly performances at the theatre were given by the theatrical troupe of Maria Karolina Wäser from Wroclaw. 1794 saw the creation of a permanent company of singers and actors under...
In spite of the title, this article is not devoted exclusively to the issue of either unity or dispersion of the achievements of the branch of hermeneutics called (as distinct from philosphical hermeneutics) textual hermeneutics. The extreme form of this unity (as well as continuity) is symbolised here by the 'whole woven cloak'; while the extreme form of non-coherence is referred to as a 'patchwork'...
Research into the enormous set of compositions grouped by the Nazis under the heading of degenerate music ('Entartete Musik') allows one to create a more differentiated landscape of the early decades of the twentieth century and the period 1933-1945, particularly in centres such as Vienna and Berlin, as well as to re-evaluate the prevalent ideas about the music of the first half of the twentieth century...
The monumental 'Polnische Liedergeschichte' by Ephraim Oloff (1685-1735), an erudite from Torun and a Polish-German pastor of Dutch origin, provides the first synthesis of Polish church song and also one of the first syntheses of church songs generally. Modern hymnology owes to him the knowledge of many cantional prints from various faiths (Catholic, Lutheran, Arian, Calvinist), which are lost to...
In modern studies of the theology and music theory of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the tendency has been for theologians to ignore references to music and for musicologists to disregard theological statements. This paper seeks to illustrate, by way of representative examples, on the one hand, some of the theological concerns expressed by music theorists of the period, and on the other...
The introduction of the Lutheran faith in the area of Ducal Prussia, Livonia and Royal Prussia in the sixteenth century gave impetus to the development of local religious song-writing in German. The greatest number of such songs comes from Koenigsberg. In the 1540s and 1550s, these were mainly written by Johannes and Paul Kugelmann, musicians at the court of Duke Albrecht, and from the end of the...
From the time of the announcement of the reformation mandate on 6 July 1525, and the church ordination and agenda on 10 December 1525, Lutheranism became the official state religion in the Duchy of Prussia, which remained a fiefdom under the rule of the Polish Crown. Against the background of a complex relationship between the faiths in Prussia during the first half of the seventeenth century, where...
The article is devoted to the exceptional musical collection comprising 16 settings of Psalm 116 by 16 composers from Central Germany (among them H. Schütz, J. H. Schein and M. Praetorius). The edition was designed by its originator and publisher as a musical votum for the received God's graces and, probably, for being saved from mortal danger referred to in the Psalm. The authoress describes the...
The purpose of this article is to supplement the existing research into the musical tradition of the St Elizabeth church in Wroclaw with information from previously unexplored archives. Sources held at the Voivodeship State Archive in Wroclaw allow us to examine more closely the structure and the dynamics of the development of musical institutions in that area. Particular attention is devoted to the...
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