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    Published : 2025-12-30
    Vol. 73 No. 12 Zeszyt specjalny (2025)

    The Instrumentarium of the Gniezno Cathedral Ensemble from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century in the Light of Previous Research

    Dariusz Sobczak

    https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5378-3895

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh257312.2s

    Abstract

    Gniezno has been an important center of musical culture in Poland for a thousand years, where Gregorian chant, polyphonic singing, and instrumental music performed by the cathedral ensemble resounded on a daily basis. The first clear evidence of the presence of instruments other than organs in Gniezno Cathedral dates back to 1466, while vocal and instrumental music resounded in the cathedral church quite early, as early as the second half of the 16th century. The oldest catalogs of musical instruments, dating from the 18th century. burned down or were lost irretrievably. Hence, on the basis of other archival sources, such as musicalia, history of the ensemble, and the biographies of composers and conductors, which was carried out primarily by Fr. Wladyslaw Zientarski, it is possible to analyze how the possession of instruments in this musical center evolved. To achieve this goal, the historical and analytical method were applied.

    Keywords:

    instrumentarium, musical instruments, cathedral ensemble, vocal-instrumental ensemble, catalog



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