Działalność i repertuar kapeli muzycznej w Rakowie Opatowskim w świetle źródeł archiwalnych
The activity and repertoire of a music chapel in Raków Opatowski in the light of the archive sources

Author(s): Aleksandra Patalas
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The library of Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne in Sandomierz preserves a precious collectionof musicalias deriving from around the first half of the 18th century, which remainedafter the parish church chapel in Raków Opatowski. The article presents both a generalcharacteristic of the collection and history of the musical ensemble it is connected with. Thefate of the chapel in Raków is tightly connected with the history of the city, especially, the religiousevents which took place in the 17th and 18th centuries. The foundation of the cappellaand its activity inscribed in counterreformation activity of „Kraków church”, aiming at the introductionof Catholicism in the former infidel centre, development of the cult of Mary andenrichment of liturgy on the centenary of the foundation of the parish in Raków. A grand basilica,replacing an Arian congregation was raised in Raków between 1640 and 1645. In 1712a singing college of mansions started to act there. Next, in a more undefined period of time,an organist and cantor were hired in the parish. In 1740 Józef Cyprian Langi, a parish priest,breathed a music chapel to life, defining its composition, duties and privileges. The evidenceof a fairly short activity of the ensemble is a collection of about 95 music manuscripts, containing,in its large part, anonymous compositions. Among 14 composers are Polish names,such as Gorczycki, Kobierkowicz, Maxylewicz, Sieprawski, Stachowicz, Staromieyski, as wellas Lechleitner, Hasse, Rathgeber and Ruth connected with Poland in one way or another.The value of the collection consists in, among other things, unique works, such as, for example,Conductus funebris or Completorium by Gorczycki.

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