Jacek Szczurowski (first name also Hyacinthus;
15 August 1716 – after 1773) was a Polish
Jesuit
The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...
, musician and composer. He was one of the first Polish composers of a
symphony
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(1740, later lost.)
[Zygmunt M. Szweykowski: ''Szczurowski, Jacek yacinthus'' In: ''New ]Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language '' Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and th ...
(Online Edition)''
Life
Szczurowski was born in Red Ruthenia in
Poland-Lithuania on 15 August 1716.
[Andrzej Chodkowski (ed.): ''Encyklopedia muzyki.'' PWN, Warszawa 1995, ISBN 83-01-11390-1.] He entered a Jesuit monastery on 14 November 1735 as a
novice
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Religion Buddhism
...
and received the orders as a Jesuit on November 20, 1737.
He was a member of the Kraków Music College run by the Jesuits. In the college's inventory from 1741, 38 works by Jacek Szczurowski are already mentioned. He served as assistant to the prefect of the college
and later was
sexton in monasteries in
Kalisz
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,
Krosno
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The functional ...
, Danzig (today
Gdańsk
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), Thorn (today
Toruń
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),
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
,
Jarosław
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History
Jarosław is located in the ...
, Posen (today
Poznań
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) and
Wałcz
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Granted city rights in 1303, Wałcz has become the administrative, industrial and cultural center of the Wałcz Lake District wi ...
(near Poznań: the last record about him comes from here.) He died after 1773; the exact date of death is not known.
Few of his vocal compositions survive, although Szczurowski was one of the most prolific Polish composers of the 18th century.
Works
(Source)
* Memento rerum conditor, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc.
* Dziecino Boże (The Christ Child), 1v, 2 ob, bc.
* Mass in D, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
* Vesperae per sanctis, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, inc.
* Missa Emmanuelis, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc, PL-Pa.
* Caeli cives occurite, SATB, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, CZp.
* Domine non sum diguns, 1v, 2 vn, bc, Pu.
* Litaniae de BVM, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
* 38 sacred and instrumental works, formerly in the Jesuit College in Kraków, lost
(Source)
* Memento rerum conditor, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc.
* Dziecino Boże (The Christ Child), 1v, 2 ob, bc.
* Mass in D, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
* Vesperae per sanctis, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, inc.
* Missa Emmanuelis, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc, PL-Pa.
* Caeli cives occurite, SATB, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, CZp.
* Domine non sum diguns, 1v, 2 vn, bc, Pu.
* Litaniae de BVM, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
* 38 sacred and instrumental works, formerly in the Jesuit College in Kraków, lost
(Source)
* Memento rerum conditor, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc.
* Dziecino Boże (The Christ Child), 1v, 2 ob, bc.
* Mass in D, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
* Vesperae per sanctis, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, inc.
* Missa Emmanuelis, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc, PL-Pa.
* Caeli cives occurite, SATB, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, CZp.
* Domine non sum diguns, 1v, 2 vn, bc, Pu.
* Litaniae de BVM, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
* 38 sacred and instrumental works, formerly in the Jesuit College in Kraków, lost
(Source)
* Memento rerum conditor, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc.
* Dziecino Boże (The Christ Child), 1v, 2 ob, bc.
* Mass in D, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
* Vesperae per sanctis, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, inc.
* Missa Emmanuelis, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc, PL-Pa.
* Caeli cives occurite, SATB, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, CZp.
* Domine non sum diguns, 1v, 2 vn, bc, Pu.
* Litaniae de BVM, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
* 38 sacred and instrumental works, formerly in the Jesuit College in Kraków, lost
References
Bibliography
* Andrzej Chodkowski (Hrsg.): ''Encyclopedia of music.'' PWN, Warsaw 1995, ISBN 83-01-11390-1.
* Maciej Jochymczyk, in: 'Polski Słownik Biograficzny'. Vol. 47. Warsaw–Kraków: Polska Akademia Nauk of the Polska Akademia Umiejętności – Instytut Historii PAN im. Tadeusza Manteuffla, 2011, pp. 505–506. ISBN 978-83-88909-93-1.
* Zygmunt M. Szweykowski: ''Szczurowski, Jacek
yacinthus'' In: ''New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language '' Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and th ...
(Online Edition).''
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Polish male classical composers
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