Polska, Pszczyna

Muzeum Zamkowe w Pszczynie

Sala Lustrzana

Artists:

Arte dei Suonatori

Oboe/oboe d’amore:
Marta Bławat

Flauto traverso/recorder:
Anežka Wacławik

Violins:
Aureliusz Goliński
Ewa Golińska

Viola:
Anna Krzyżak-Siarkowska

Cello:
Monika Hartmann

Harpsichord:
Dagmara Tyrcha

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In this program, we aim to transport our audience to the royal court in Warsaw and invite them to enjoy the compositions of Georg Philipp Telemann. His music, as the most famous composer of the first half of the 18th century, overshadowing even Johann Sebastian Bach in popularity, was certainly performed at the Warsaw court. Reconstructing the concert and chamber repertoire of the royal chapel from this period is very difficult due to the destruction or loss of almost all musical materials. We can infer the probable presence of selected sonatas and concertos by Telemann from copies made by royal musicians, preserved in various library collections. In our program, we will feature concerts and sonatas that were likely listened to by King Augustus II. Their copies have been preserved in handwritten transcriptions made by the court composers of this ruler, Giovanni Ristori and Johann Schmidt, as well as copies made by another notable Baroque composer, Johann Joachim Quantz, who was employed at the Warsaw royal chapel from 1718 to 1724. The selected pieces form a colorful and impressive set of sonatas and concertos featuring string instruments, oboe, oboe d’amore, transverse flute, and recorder. There will be no shortage of references to our native folklore, present in many of Telemann’s compositions. He discovered Polish folk music in his youth while serving at the court of Erdmann von Promnitz in Żary and Pszczyna, and from then on, he drew from the resources of this folklore throughout his extraordinarily prolific creative life.