Karmelitański inwentarz muzyczny z 1739 roku
A Carmelite Music Inventory from 1739

Summary/Abstract: Recently discovered in the Carmelite Archive in the Piasek district of Kraków is a previously unknown inventory of music-related sources. Compiled in 1739, it lists around 260 pieces belonging to the music collection of the Carmelite ensemble in Kraków during the first half of the eighteenth century. This is a precious find, which fundamentally alters our knowledge of the ensemble’s activity. Until now, the only source of information about its repertoire was an inventory from 1660–84, published by Tadeusz Maciejewski in ‘Muzyka’ in 1976, which contains an entirely different set of titles. The eighteenth-century inventory lists the titles of Masses, litanies, motets, hymns and concertos, mostly without the composers’ names. The few mentioned by name are either Polish composers or foreign musicians active in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the first half of the eighteenth century, namely, Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, Jacek Szczurowski, Paweł Sieprawski, Józef Kobierkowicz, Szymon Ferdynand Lechleitner and Pszczeński (first name unknown), as well as the Central-European composers Johann Valentin Rathgeber and Šimon Brixi. The inventory lists several pieces by these composers not known from any other sources.

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