programme and abstracts - Alamire Foundation

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German principalities, England, Scotland and Scandinavia. The
multinational aspect of Gdansk and numerous contacts with
leading European centres were important factors allowing the
city to easily adopt elements of foreign cultures.
A repertoire contained in the manuscripts and prints from
Gdansk libraries conveys a musical image of the city which
successfully adopts the stylistic achievements of the Netherlands,
Italian and German composers. A characteristic feature of the
repertoire functioning in Gdansk seems to have been a penchant
for polychoral compositions, written both abroad and locally
(Lampadius, Zangius, Hakenberger, Dulichius). There are so
many examples of this type of music that Gdansk should be
considered one of the foremost centres of polychorality in the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. There is, nevertheless,
evidence that in Gdansk there were relatively early adoptions of
stile concertato (works by local composers - Gremboszewski,
Schnitzkius and works dedicated to the Gdansk City Council by
Bernardino Borlasca and Thobias von Düren). The rapidity of
the polychoral permeation to Gdansk, as well as the early arrival
of new Baroque ideas, can be compared to similar phenomena
known from the excellent King’s Chapel in Warsaw and certainly
proves the high level of musical life in Gdansk.
Gdansk undoubtedly also played an important role in promoting
musical ideas, especially polychoral, across Northern Europe.
DANUTA POPINIGIS
Akademia Muzyczna – Gdańsk, PL
Die Sing-Glocken aus s`Hertogenbosch in der Hansestadt
Danzig
Die 14 Glocken des automatischen Glockenspiels des Danziger
Rechtstädtischen Rathauses kamen aus s`Hertogenbosch, wo sie
von dem Glockengießer Johannes Moor angefertigt worden
waren. Das Glockenspiel wurde 1561 in Betrieb genommen.
Dadurch, dass es sich alle Stunde einschaltete, war es für die
Bewohner der Stadt ein verlässlicher Zeitmesser, wobei das
Glockenspiel aber auch als Signalinstrument bei wichtigen