Sacred music by Amandus Ivanschiz: attributions and variants of extant compositions

• Authors: Maciej Jochymczyk
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The Pauline father Amandus Ivanschiz (1727-1758) was a composer whose music heralded the style of the early Classical period. He worked mainly in Austria (Wiener Neustadt and Mariatrost), as well as in Rome (it has recently been established that he spent three years there). His sacred music, especially masses, litanies and cantata-style pieces to non-liturgical texts, has been preserved in numerous manuscripts (over 260 items) held in eight countries of Central Europe (Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Hungary). Comparative analysis of all the manuscripts allows one to distinguish several problems commonly encountered in research into eighteenth-century musical sources, such as variants, multiple versions of works and contradictory attributions of authorship, further exacerbated by the lack of originals. This article focusses on the most recent findings relating to Ivanschiz’s life and religious music, as well as discussing and illustrating discrepancies between various copies of the same compositions by reference to selected works. We will also consider the differentiation of authorial variants from variant versions arising from custom.

Keywords

PL

Amandus; Ivanschiz; Ivancic; eighteenth-century church music; Mass; litany; sources; variant; version

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 251-264

Dates

published

2018-10-17

Contributors

author

Maciej Jochymczyk

• graduated in musicology from the Jagiellonian University of Cracow. For his master’s thesis, he received the Ray and Ruth Robinson Musicology Award (2007). In 2012, he completed his PhD dissertation on the life and church music of Amandus Ivanschiz. His interests centre upon Central European sacred music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, problems of musical editing and musical sources. A member of the Musica Claromontana editorial committee since 2005, he has been working on the largest collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Polish church music, held at the Pauline Fathers’ Monastery in Jasna Góra (Częstochowa). He has had several papers published in leading Polish and European musicological journals (including Muzyka and International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music) and a book on the oeuvre of the seventeenth-century Polish composer Damian Stachowicz.