RELIGIOUS MUSIC BY JOHANN VALENTIN RATHGEBER (1682-1750) IN LIGHT OF POLISH SOURCES (Muzyka religijna Johanna Valentina Rathgebera (1682-1750) w swietle zródel polskich)

• Authors: Konik Marcin
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Johann Valentin Rathgeber was born in Southern Germany at Oberelsbach (north of Würzburg) on 3 April 1682. The environment in which Rathgeber spent his childhood and early youth allowed him to become familiar with the needs of smaller ensembles, which were active in small localities. Johann Valentin Rathgeber was a very prolific composer. Moreover, he was skilled in attracting influential sponsors, as a result of which a large number of his works was published in print during his lifetime. The presence of a relatively large number of his works in sources of Polish provenance is the result of adapting the cast and performance difficulty of his compositions to the needs of small centres. It is precisely in those collections - the ensembles of the Piarist monastery in Podoliniec, the collegiate parish church in Grodzisk Wielkopolski or the parish of Raków Opatowski - that we find Rathberger's compositions in Poland. The collection left by the ensemble from Grodzisk Wielkopolski includes a manuscript containing the composition 'Alma redemptoris mater' with the parts C solo, 2 Vn, Org, transmitted anonymously. This is a work by Johann Valentin Rathgeber, from his Op. V from 1727. The copyist of the manuscript was Father Benedykt Cichoszewski - a Cistersian monk who was active in the first half of the eighteenth century at the monasteries in Przemet and Paradyz. Unfortunately, the authorship of these works had been somewhat carelessly attributed to Cichoszewski, in spite of the fact that in her catalogue Danuta Idaszak clearly describes him as only a copyist. Attributing to Benedykt Cichoszewski the authorship of compositions by Johann Valentin Rathgeber seems particularly curious in view of the fact that this work had already been identified earlier. It also highlights the need for particular care and attention to detail when researching sources of early music. This would help us to avoid misunderstandings in research, which can lead to serious errors and create considerable confusion about Polish eighteenth-century religious music.

Keywords

EN

BAROQUE MUSIC; MUSIC IN MONASTERY; RATHGEBER JOHANN VALENTIN

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Muzyka
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 3(210)
• Pages: 31-44
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Konik Marcin

• M. Konik, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Instytut Muzykologii, ul. Westerplatte 10, 31-033 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA057729