Kultura muzyczna warszawskiego konwentu paulinów w latach 1661-1819

Abstract

In the year 1661 the King of Poland, Jan Kazimierz, gave the church of “The Holy Spirit” in Warsaw to the Pauline Order. From this moment to cassation in 1819, the fathers in white habits served the citizens of the capital city of Poland, as pastors and protectors of “The Brotherhood of the Five Wounds of Jesus Christ”. The Pauliners enjoyed great prestige in these times in Warsaw; they had good connections with Royal Castle ‒ Polish King’s confcssioners were fathers: Fryderyk Strauch, Atanazy Wargawski, Chryzolog Frasarski. They also worked in the Royal Secretary. Music was firmly written in the Pauline tradition. The Order served in Holy Mary Shrines and cared about good musical arrangements in time of “solemn” Holy Masses or other special ceremonies. In every shrine and most important monasteries there was the chapel and the choir. The Pauline Convent in Warsaw founded the chapel and the choir following the example of the provincial (lately general) monastery at Jasna Góra in Częstochowa, and other Polish monasteries (in Leśna Podlaska, Włodawa, Brdów). In this chapel and choir the musicians were pauliners (see the chapter 3.2.1) and seculars (sometimes paid by the monastery) (3.2.2). The chapel musicians disposed of limited instrumentally (3.3.1), as it reached for quite ambitions repertoire of the then composers ‒ Pez, Caldaia, Bodino (3.3.2). Until the 1819 cassation of Pauline monastery in Warsaw, this unprofessional chapel and the choir, were still operating. They took possession of a significant place in the Warsaw Musical Culture.