Published: 2025-12-17

Tragicomoedia seu Luctuosus Musici Chori de Passione Salvatoris Dei (1755) – An Allegorical Passion Oratorio by father Karol Mikołaj Juniewicz OSPPE and Gasparo Ruthini as a Gift from the Jasna Góra Monastery to Queen Maria Josepha of Poland

Agnieszka Drożdżewska
Liturgia Sacra. Liturgia - Musica - Ars
Section: Muzyka w liturgii
DOI https://doi.org/10.25167/ls.6074

Abstract

The article presents a little-known allegorical Passion oratorio by Fr. Karol Mikołaj Juniewicz OSPPE and Gasparo Ruthini, which in 1755 was offered to Maria Josepha of Austria, Queen of Poland. The work has survived in a complete handwritten form in the former royal collection in Dresden, as well as fragmentarily as musical wastepaper in the Jasna Góra collection. The study provides a detailed characterization of the sources and the circumstances surrounding the dedication of the work, as well as possible contexts of its performance. It also addresses the problematic issue of the authorship of the musical layer, draws attention to the structure and fundamental musical features of the composition, and outlines further research perspectives on this piece, which belongs to the sparsely preserved tradition of Polish oratorio music.

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Drożdżewska, A. (2025). Tragicomoedia seu Luctuosus Musici Chori de Passione Salvatoris Dei (1755) – An Allegorical Passion Oratorio by father Karol Mikołaj Juniewicz OSPPE and Gasparo Ruthini as a Gift from the Jasna Góra Monastery to Queen Maria Josepha of Poland. Liturgia Sacra. Liturgia - Musica - Ars, 65, 217–243. https://doi.org/10.25167/ls.6074

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