Katalog muzykaliów księżnej Teresy Lubomirskiej z Przeworska ze zbiorów Biblioteki Zakładu Narodowego im. Ossolińskich we Wrocławiu

Abstrakt

The manuscripts collection of the Ossoliński National Institute Library in Wrocław includes a hand-written catalogue of pieces of music from the 1st half of the 19th century, which belonged to Duchess Teresa Lubomirska, a wife of the known patron of the arts Henryk Lubomirski, who lived in Przeworsk. The document is of much interest, as it presents pieces that were well known and popular with people of noble origin in Galicia at the time. We know from the surviving correspondence, memoirs and historical sources that the musical instruments and sheet music that were used at the manor house in Przeworsk at the time had been provided by Duchess Izabela Lubomirska of Łańcut, who liked both Duke Henryk and his wife very much.

The catalogue has a structure that is characteristic for such type of sources. It begins with pieces for small, chamber instrumental ensembles: duos, trios, quartets, quintets and septets. These are followed by music scores for bigger forms: divertimenti, instrumental concerts and symphonies. This extensive catalogue section ends with scores for operatic overtures, fragments of ballets and pantomimes. The document closes with a list of the musical instruments that made up the basic performing ensemble – it was typical of an orchestra during the Classical Style Period. Because of this, the main repertoire was constituted principally by works written by the composers of the First Viennese School: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. However, it also included chamber pieces of some Polish composers: Wincenty and Franciszek Lessel, Joachim Kaczkowski, Józef Elsner and Stanisław Ossowski. The above information is somehow supplemented with an inventory of the palace furniture that is kept in the Wasyl Stefanyk Library in Lviv. The inventory lists a piano, a clavichord, two bassoons and a double bass. The list of the pieces of music only indicates the existence of an orchestra at the manor house. The sheet music had a much more complicated history. In the light of the available sources, it was dispersed during the WWII and was subsequently divided between libraries in Lviv, Cracow and Wrocław.