Manuscripts of Antoni Habel’s symphonies in Wielkopolska archives
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2012
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Katedra Muzykologii, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PTPN, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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The main aim of this article is to present the manuscripts of Antoni Habel’s symphonies
preserved in archives in the Wielkopolska region of Poland and attempt to order them chronologically in
respect to their dates of composition. Habel lived in Gniezno around the turn of the nineteenth century.
Most of our information about him comes from payroll registers, inventories and other documents
preserved in the Archiepiscopal Archive of Gniezno, but they do not contain any information about
his symphonies. The following works by Habel have survived to this day: a Sinfonia D, preserved in
two copies (in Grodzisk and Gniezno), and a Sinfonia ex F, preserved in Gostyń. A critical analysis
of these two compositions allows us to indicate which was composed fi rst, since the simplicity of the
composition techniques used in the F major Symphony suggests that it is older than the D major. We
must also address, however, the question of the differences between the two copies of the D major
Symphony, which vary with regard to melody, rhythm, dynamics, articulation and even form. Analysis
makes it possible to reconstruct the order in which the two manuscripts were produced and determine
the original version of the D major Symphony.
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Antoni Habel, Polish symphonies, eighteenth century, church archives, Gniezno
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Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology 11, 2012, pp. 265-271.
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1734-2406