Kilka uwag o pijarskich muzykach z XVII i XVIII wieku: Stachowicz, Pasternacki, Szczawnicki, Caspar
A Few Remarks on Piarist Musicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Stachowicz, Pasternacki, Szczawnicki and Caspar

Summary/Abstract: To date, the music cultivated by the Piarist Order in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth has seldom been the subject of research. Damian Stachowicz (1658–99) is such an outstanding figure in the history of not only Polish, but also European music, and the Podolínec collection of music-related documents so unique, at least in the history of the Piarist Order, that any relevant issues, however minor they may appear to be, are worthy of consideration, sometimes leading to them being corrected or amplified. Apart from Stachowicz, three other Piarist musicians, almost completely forgotten today, deserve our attention: Gabriel Szczawnicki (1652–1723), Kasper Pasternacki (1664–1712) and Just Caspar (1717–60). Their names cannot be found in specialist lexicons published in Poland or abroad. Based on previously unexplored documents held in the Archivio Generale Storico delle Scuole Pie in Rome and the Archive of the Polish Province of the Piarist Order in Cracow, a number of facts have been established concerning the aforesaid musicians, above all Damian Stachowicz.

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