Jacek Szczurowski


Jacek Szczurowski was a Polish Jesuit, musician and composer. He was one of the first Polish composers of a symphony

Life

Szczurowski was born in Red Ruthenia in Poland-Lithuania on 15 August 1716. He entered a Jesuit monastery on 14 November 1735 as a novice and received the orders as a Jesuit on November 20, 1737. He was a member of the Kraków Music College run by the Jesuits. In the college's inventory from 1741, 38 works by Jacek Szczurowski are already mentioned. He served as assistant to the prefect of the college and later was sexton in monasteries in Kalisz, Krosno, Danzig, Thorn, Kraków, Jarosław, Posen and Wałcz He died after 1773; the exact date of death is not known.
Few of his vocal compositions survive, although Szczurowski was one of the most prolific Polish composers of the 18th century.

Works

  • Memento rerum conditor, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc.
  • Dziecino Boże, 1v, 2 ob, bc.
  • Mass in D, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
  • Vesperae per sanctis, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, inc.
  • Missa Emmanuelis, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc, PL-Pa.
  • Caeli cives occurite, SATB, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, CZp.
  • Domine non sum diguns, 1v, 2 vn, bc, Pu.
  • Litaniae de BVM, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
  • 38 sacred and instrumental works, formerly in the Jesuit College in Kraków, lost
  • Memento rerum conditor, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc.
  • Dziecino Boże, 1v, 2 ob, bc.
  • Mass in D, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
  • Vesperae per sanctis, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, inc.
  • Missa Emmanuelis, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc, PL-Pa.
  • Caeli cives occurite, SATB, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, CZp.
  • Domine non sum diguns, 1v, 2 vn, bc, Pu.
  • Litaniae de BVM, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
  • 38 sacred and instrumental works, formerly in the Jesuit College in Kraków, lost
  • Memento rerum conditor, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc.
  • Dziecino Boże, 1v, 2 ob, bc.
  • Mass in D, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
  • Vesperae per sanctis, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, inc.
  • Missa Emmanuelis, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc, PL-Pa.
  • Caeli cives occurite, SATB, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, CZp.
  • Domine non sum diguns, 1v, 2 vn, bc, Pu.
  • Litaniae de BVM, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
  • 38 sacred and instrumental works, formerly in the Jesuit College in Kraków, lost
  • Memento rerum conditor, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc.
  • Dziecino Boże, 1v, 2 ob, bc.
  • Mass in D, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
  • Vesperae per sanctis, 2vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, inc.
  • Missa Emmanuelis, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 hn, bc, PL-Pa.
  • Caeli cives occurite, SATB, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc, CZp.
  • Domine non sum diguns, 1v, 2 vn, bc, Pu.
  • Litaniae de BVM, 4vv, 2 vn, 2 clarinos, bc.
  • 38 sacred and instrumental works, formerly in the Jesuit College in Kraków, lost