Franciszek Lilius’ musical output and its dissemination in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Franciszek Lilius’ musical output and its dissemination in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Summary/Abstract: Franciszek Lilius (Francesco Gigli) was one of the most prominent composers of the 17th century Poland, a pedagogue, poet and the director of music in Cracow’s Cathe-dral between 1630–1657. Having being raised in an Italian family which cherished a musical tradition and also having being a student of Girolamo Frescobaldi between 1624–1625 in Rome, Lilius quickly became a valued figure in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The musical output of Franciszek Lilius includes at least ninety-five compositions, but only one third of it survived today. The available sources tell us the musical pieces were known and performed not only during the composer’s life but also after his death, during the 17th and 18th century. The goal of this article is to show that Franciszek Lilius’ music did exist in the Cracow musical circles (Wawel castle bands, the band belonging to Carmelites at Piasek), as well as other cities in former Poland (Gdańsk, Sandomierz, Przemyśl, Drohiczyn, Lviv, Vilnus), Silesia (Wrocław), Duchy of Prussia (Königsberg), in the area now belonging to Slovakia (Podolinec), as well as the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

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