Unknown Compositions by Johann Alois Lamb in Lubiąż. A Contribution to the Composer's Biography
Unknown Compositions by Johann Alois Lamb in Lubiąż. A Contribution to the Composer's Biography

Summary/Abstract: The music manuscript collection of the Cistercians from Lubiąż, now held at the Music Department at the University of Warsaw Library, includes autographs of two heretofore unknown Masses by Johann Alois Lamb, a Czech composer active in the second half of the 18th century in Vrchlabí. These are also his earliest-dated compositions. The article presents hypotheses about the composer's early life. Based on an analysis of the manuscripts from Lubiąż signed with Lamb's name and sources referring to his life (described in a monograph by Jakub Michl), we can surmise that he spent his youth in the Cistercian monastery in Lubiąż, where he received his musical and elementary education. The article includes a discussion of all sources connected to Lamb from the Lubiąż Cistercian collection.

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