Sacred music by Amandus Ivanschiz: attributions and variants of extant compositions
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2012
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Katedra Muzykologii, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PTPN, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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The Pauline father Amandus Ivanschiz (1727–1758) was a composer whose music heralded
the style of the early Classical period. He worked mainly in Austria (Wiener Neustadt and Mariatrost),
as well as in Rome (it has recently been established that he spent three years there). His sacred music,
especially masses, litanies and cantata-style pieces to non-liturgical texts, has been preserved in
numerous manuscripts (over 260 items) held in eight countries of Central Europe (Austria, the Czech
Republic, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Hungary). Comparative analysis of
all the manuscripts allows one to distinguish several problems commonly encountered in research into
eighteenth-century musical sources, such as variants, multiple versions of works and contradictory attributions
of authorship, further exacerbated by the lack of originals. This article focusses on the most
recent fi ndings relating to Ivanschiz’s life and religious music, as well as discussing and illustrating
discrepancies between various copies of the same compositions by reference to selected works. We
will also consider the differentiation of authorial variants from variant versions arising from custom.
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Amandus, Ivanschiz, Ivančić, eighteenth-century church music, Mass, litany, sources, variant, version
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Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology 11, 2012, pp. 251-264
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1734-2406