The mysterious provenance and uncommon repertoire of the music collection belonging to the Dominican Pius Hancke

• Authors: Ewa Hauptman-Fischer
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Father Pius Hancke’s music collection includes numerous pieces written for harp. Its outstanding repertoire and provenance distinguishes it from other monastic collections. Hancke expanded it throughout his life and took it with him when moving home. He spent the last thirty years of his life in the Dominican monastery in Nysa. Music for the liturgy contained in his collection (masses, litanies) was certainly used there and is currently the only testimony of that monastery’s musical culture. Besides liturgical compositions, Hancke’s collection includes a number of instrumental pieces for harp with the accompaniment of other instruments and contrafacta of operatic arias. The latter often include parts arranged for harp, probably by Hancke himself. The scriptors’ names link this collection to a unique manuscript containing a Credo ascribed to Antonio Vivaldi.

Keywords

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Nysa; Antonio Vivaldi; Pius Hancke; Dominicans; harp

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 155-168

Dates

published

2018-10-17

Contributors

author

Ewa Hauptman-Fischer

• gained her MA in musicology at the University of Warsaw (2003), and her thesis on eighteenth-century music from the Cistercian abbey in Pelplin was subsequently published in Studia Pelplińskie. She works in the Music Department of the University of Warsaw Library, cataloging early Silesian music documents for the International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM). Her main field of interest is source studies. She is currently working on her PhD thesis on the operas of Ludomir Różycki. Her most important papers include ‘Recenzje prasowe i korespondencja Ludomira Różyckiego ze zbiorów Archiwum Kompozytorów Polskich BUW dotyczące opery “Bolesław Śmiały” Ludomira Różyckiego’ [Press reviews and correspondence of Ludomir Różycki from the Polish Composers’ Archive of the University of Warsaw Library], in Europejska kultura muzyczna w polskich bibliotekach i archiwach (Cracow, 2008) and ‘Analiza źródloznawcza “Halki” Stanisława Moniuszki’ [A source analysis of Stanisław Moniuszko’s Halka], Res Facta Nova, 11 (2010).