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    Published : 2025-12-22
    Vol. 73 No. 5 Zeszyt specjalny (2025)

    Composers Of Italian Origin And Their Works In The Musical Resources Of The Cistercian Abbey In Kraków-Mogiła

    Susi Ferfoglia

    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7230-6648

    Dariusz Smolarek

    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-8525

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh25735.18s

    Abstract

    In the church centers of the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, there were many music groups that performed vocal-instrumental and instrumental music. A well-preserved and numerous resource of such musical sources is the collection of musical items (over 300 compositions) located in the Archives of the Cistercian Abbey in Kraków-Mogiła (the Latin name of the monastery is Clara Tumba).

    The repertoire of the abbey’s chapel included pieces by Polish and foreign composers from the 18th century. Among the foreigners, there was a large group of artists of Italian origin (about 25 names). Among the more famous ones are L. Boccherini, P. Guglielmi, G. Paisiello, N. Piccinni, G. B. Sammartini. But there are also musicians whose names and compositions have only been discovered in recent years. The collection includes about 40 pieces by Italian composers. This repertoire includes: symphonies, sonatas, trios, vocal arias (duets, vocal trios), contrafacta of arias from operas, vespers psalms, mass.

    The presence of works by composers of Italian origin in the repertoire of the Mogiła music ensemble may indicate connections with other musical centres. Some Italian musicians (performers and composers) were active in music ensembles at the court of successive Polish kings: Augustus II the Strong, Augustus III and Stanisław August. This fact indicates Polish-Italian musical relations in the 18th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This type of situation was conducive to the transmission of foreign repertoire and its reception in the musical environment of the Mogiła Cistercians.

    Keywords:

    musical ensembles of the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, eighteenth-century Italian composers, musical culture of the Cistercians, Cistercian Abbey in Kraków-Mogiła, vocal-instrumental music, instrumental music



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    Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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