Tomasz Szadek
Tomasz Szadek (1550 – 1612) was a Polish composer, singer, and cleric of the late Renaissance. He was a representative of the late style of the Franco-Flemish school in Poland. Gustave Reese gives a birthdate of 1550, but no location.
Tomasz Szadek
- Born
- 1550 · Kraków.
- Died
- 1612 · Kraków.
- Nationality
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Occupation
- composer · singer · priest
- Fields
- classical
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Tomasz Szadek (1550 – 1612) was a Polish composer, singer, and cleric of the late Renaissance. He was a representative of the late style of the Franco-Flemish school in Poland. Gustave Reese gives a birthdate of 1550, but no location.
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Little is known about his activities prior to his appointment to the royal chapel in Kraków, other than that he had received a baccalaureate degree sometime before his arrival in 1569. He became a curate at the cathedral in the early 1570s, where he also heard confessions. He joined the Capella Rorantistarum, a group of male singers for the Sigismund Chapel of the Wawel Cathedral, and remained with them until 1578. Towards the end of his life, the association of cathedral vicars put him on trial, accusing him of poor performance in administrative duties and having an immoral lifestyle. Szadek's surviving music was all written for the male voices of his choir. It is in a style equivalent to the work of the late Franco-Flemish school. One of his two masses is based on a chanson by Thomas Crecquillon – Pis ne me peult venir, and is of the parody type. The other is also a parody mass, and based on a Christmas carol.
• Two masses: • Officium Dies est laetitiae (1578) • Officium In melodiam motetae Pisneme (1580) • Three antiphons: • Introit Vultum tuum • gradual Haec dies • communion Pascha nostra
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- 1.Zygmunt M. Szweykowski. "Tomasz Szadek." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/27286 (accessed December 19, 2011).
- 2.Reese, Gustave. Music in the Renaissance. W.W. Norton & Co. 753. 1959. 0-393-09530-4.
- 3.Słownik muzyków dawnej Polski, A. Chybiński, Kraków 1948/49
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