Marcin Mielczewski - Deus in Nomine Tuo (Kosendiak)

Описание: Martin Mielczewski

Conductor: Andrzej Kosendiak
Ensemble: Wrocław Baroque Ensemble
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Mielczewski Marcin, monogram M.M. Polish composer and kapellmeister. Died between 8 and 30 September 1651 in Warsaw. The composer’s name appears in many versions in source documents, including: Mielcowski, Mielezewski, Milczewski, Mylczewski. His date and place of birth are not known, the date of the creation and opening of his will allow us to determine his approximate date of death (lost during World War II, a summary made by H. Feicht is extant); from his will we know that he came from a catholic family. According to H. Ninius ("Examen breve...", Braniewo 1647) Mielczewski was a pupil of F. Lilius.

The first certain date concerning the composer comes from the records of the St. John’s Church in Warsaw of 18th December 1632 (the baptism of his son, Stanisław), which shows that at least in 1632, Mielczewski was a royal musician. His function in the Vasa (Royal family) cappella is not known; he was probably an instrumentalist. A. Jarzębski lists him as among the greatest of Władysław IV’s musicians, and emphasizes his composing skills.

Marcin Mielczewski was the best known Polish composer in Europe in the seventeenth century. His works were known in various German centres, in Denmark, Gdańsk, Silesia, Moravia and Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia and probably in Paris. In his lifetime, only the canon published by M. Scacchi in Xenia Apollinea, a musical addendum to Cribrum musicum (Venice 1643) appeared in print. Several years after the composer's death in a collection of “the most famous Italian and other authors” by J. Havemann (Erster Theil Geistlicher Con­certen, Jena 1659) his solo church concerto Deus in nomine tuo appeared. M. Dylecki invoked examples of Mielczewski’s work in his treaty Grama­tyka mu­zyczna (Vilnius, c. 1675). M. Schacht mentioned his compositions in his treaty Musicus Danicus (1687). Mielczewski’s compositions were much sought after by German princes and Patriarch Nikon of Moscow. Apart from the two already mentioned, all other pieces by Marcin Mielczewski remained in manuscript copies (usually not dated, but mostly from the second half of the seventeenth century), and are now to be found in libraries and archives abroad - in Berlin (including a collection of the former Municipal Library in Wrocław), Paris, Kroměříž, Levoča and Vilnius, as well as Polish archives: in Gdańsk, Warsaw, Kraków (some pieces that are in those collections from before World War II are currently considered missing; they are known only from twentieth-century copies or photographs). For many of them, especially in copies made in the seventeenth century outside of Poland, the composer’s name was given in various distorted forms.

(PWM)