Jakub Gołąbek (c.1739-1789) - Sinfonia D-Dur (c.1780)

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Composer: Jakub Gołąbek (c.1739-1789)
Work: Sinfonia D-Dur (c.1780)
Performers: Orkiestra KameraIna FiIharmonii Poznańskiej; Robert Satanowski (1918-1997, conductor)

Painting: Jan Piotr Norblin (1745-1830) - Lazienki Palace; view from the South (1794)
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Jakub Gołąbek
(Silesia, c.1739 - Kraków, 30 March 1789)

Polish composer and singer. He was active in Kraków from at least 1766 (in which year he was married), first in the chapel choir of St Mary’s, later (c.1774) as singer and composer for the Wawel Cathedral choir. From 1781 to 1787 he also worked as a teacher at the Kraków singing school run by the priest Wacław Sierakowski, and took part in concerts of oratorios and cantatas organized by Sierakowski, modelled on those of the Concert Spirituel, Paris. Gołąbek’s music is significant in the formation of a Polish Classical style, as is evident in the forms he used (two-subject expositions, short development and recapitulation), thematic structure, treatment of the bass part (clearly following the tradition of the basso continuo), and the use of galant elements in slow movements (for example in his Parthia). There are four extant, unaccompanied masses, conforming to the type ‘missa sine credo’, mostly composed in a homophonic style but containing some polyphony. Gołąbek’s instrumental music is characterized by a non-schematic approach to composition combined with a degree of melodic ingenuity. His sacred works, as well as his symphonic works, were well known in his day and were highly regarded, not just in the Kraków region.