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Capella Cracoviensis, the Glossary

Capella Cracoviensis is a period instrument ensemble and a chamber choir based in Kraków, Poland.^[1]

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Culture in Kraków
Polish choirs
Polish orchestras

Académie Charles Cros

The Académie Charles Cros (Charles Cros Academy) is an organization located in Chézy-sur-Marne, France, that acts as an intermediary between government cultural policy makers and professionals in music and the recording industry.

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Adam Mickiewicz Institute

The Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Instytut Adama Mickiewicza) is a government-sponsored organization funded by Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and headquartered at 25 Mokotowska Street (the Sugar Palace) in Warsaw.

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Agora (company)

Agora Spółka Akcyjna (Agora SA) is a Polish media company.

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Andreas Spering

Andreas Spering (born in 1966) is a German conductor and harpsichordist, who specializes in Early music.

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Andrew Parrott

Andrew Parrott (born 10 March 1947) is a British conductor, perhaps best known for his pioneering "historically informed performances" of pre-classical music.

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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music.

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Athalia (Handel)

Athalia (HWV 52) is an English-language oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel to a libretto by Samuel Humphreys based on the play Athalie by Jean Racine.

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Bachfest Leipzig

The Bachfest Leipzig (Leipzig Bach Festival) is a music festival which takes place annually, in the month of June, in the city of Leipzig, where J. S. Bach worked as the Thomaskantor from 1723 until his death in 1750.

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Baroque in Poland

The Polish Baroque lasted from the early 17th to the mid-18th century.

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Baroque music

Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.

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Choir

A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.

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Christophe Rousset

Christophe Rousset (born 12 April 1961) is a French harpsichordist and conductor, who specializes in the performance of Baroque music on period instruments.

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Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

The Royal Concertgebouw (het Koninklijk Concertgebouw) is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.

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Coronation Mass (Mozart)

The Krönungsmesse (German for Coronation Mass) (Mass No. 15 in C major, K. 317; sometimes Mass No. 16), composed in 1779, is one of the most popular of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 17 extant settings of the Ordinary of the Mass.

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Countertenor

A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a specific kind of countertenor) may match the soprano's range of around C4 to C6.

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Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud (4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher.

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Deborah (Handel)

Deborah (HWV 51) is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (founded 1958) is a German classical music record label.

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Diapason d'Or

The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of Diapason magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the British Gramophone magazine.

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Early music

Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750).

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Echo Klassik

The Echo Klassik, often stylized as ECHO Klassik, was Germany's major classical music award in 22 categories.

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Ensemble Matheus

Ensemble Matheus is a French baroque orchestra.

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Erato Records

Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 as Erato Disques S.A. by Philippe Loury to promote French classical music.

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Europa Galante

Europa Galante is the Italian period-instrument Baroque orchestra founded by violinist Fabio Biondi in 1990 and directed by him.

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Franco Fagioli

Franco Maximiliano Fagioli (born 1981, in Tucumán) is an Argentine operatic countertenor.

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Gazeta Wyborcza

(The Electoral Gazette in English) is a Polish nationwide daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland.

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General manager

A general manager (GM) is an executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement, known as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.

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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Giovanni Battista Draghi (4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the greatest Italian musicians of the first half of the 18th century and one of the most important representatives of the Neapolitan school.

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Giuliano Carmignola

Giuliano Carmignola (born 7 July 1951, in Treviso) is an Italian violinist.

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Halka

Halka is an opera by Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko to a libretto written by Włodzimierz Wolski, a young Warsaw poet with radical social views.

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Handel Festival, Halle

The Handel Festival (in German: Händel-Festspiele) in Halle an der Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, is an international music festival concentrating on the music of George Frideric Handel in the composer's birthplace.

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Il Giardino Armonico

Il Giardino Armonico ("The Garden of Harmony") is an Italian ensemble well noted for its practice of Historically Informed Performance and founded in Milan in 1985 by Luca Pianca and Giovanni Antonini, primarily to play 17th- and 18th-century music on period instruments.

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Jakub Józef Orliński

Jakub Józef Orliński (born 8 December 1990) is a Polish operatic countertenor singer and breakdancer.

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Jan Tomasz Adamus

Jan Tomasz Adamus (born 16 June 1968) is a Polish conductor, organist, chamber musician, recording artist and music administrator.

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Jean-Baptiste Lully

Jean-Baptiste Lully (– 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.

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Julia Lezhneva

Julia Mikhaylovna Lezhneva (Юлия Михайловна Лежнева; born 5 December 1989) is a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist, specializing in soprano and coloratura mezzo-soprano material of the 18th and early 19th century.

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Kai Wessel (countertenor)

Kai Wessel (born 1964 in Hamburg) is a German countertenor and teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.

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Kraków

(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.

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Kraków Philharmonic

The Kraków Philharmonic (Filharmonia Krakowska) is the primary concert hall in Kraków, Poland. Capella Cracoviensis and Kraków Philharmonic are culture in Kraków.

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Le Poème Harmonique

Le Poème Harmonique is a musical ensemble founded in 1998 by Vincent Dumestre to recreate and promote early music, in particular that of the 17th century.

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Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Lesser Poland Voivodeship (województwo małopolskie) is a voivodeship in southern Poland.

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List of compositions by Darius Milhaud

Below is a list of compositions by Darius Milhaud sorted by category.

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Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV.

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Marcin Masecki

Marcin Masecki (born 6 September 1982 in Warsaw) is a Polish avant garde pianist, composer and conductor.

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Mass in B minor

The Mass in B minor (h-Moll-Messe), BWV 232, is an extended setting of the Mass ordinary by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Matteo Messori

Matteo Messori (born 23 April 1976, in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, composer and teacher.

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Max Emanuel Cenčić

Max Emanuel Cenčić (born 21 September 1976) is a Croatian countertenor.

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Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland)

The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego) is a ministry within Polish government led by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage responsible for national heritage preservation and Polish culture promotion.

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Music of Poland

The Music of Poland covers diverse aspects of music and musical traditions which have originated, and are practiced in Poland.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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Nicola Porpora

Nicola (or Niccolò) Antonio Giacinto Porpora (17 August 16863 March 1768) was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli.

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Nuria Rial

Núria Rial (born 1975 in Manresa, Catalonia) is a Catalan soprano.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Orchestre des Champs-Élysées

The Orchestre des Champs-Élysées is an orchestra that specializes in the performance of music from the period from roughly 1750 to the early twentieth century, that is, it covers the period from the flourishing of Haydn to that of Mahler.

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, founded in 1989 by John Eliot Gardiner, performs Classical and Romantic music using the principles and original instruments of historically informed performance.

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Paul Godwin

Paul Godwin (1902–1982) was a violinist and the leader of a popular German dance orchestra in the 1920s and 30s.

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Paul Goodwin

Paul Goodwin (born 2 September 1956) is an English conductor and former oboist.

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Paul McCreesh

Paul McCreesh (born 24 May 1960) is an English conductor.

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Peter Hanson

Peter Daniel Hanson (born 4 October 1977) is a Swedish former professional golfer who played on the European Tour and the PGA Tour.

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Piotr Orzechowski

Piotr Orzechowski (Polish pronunciation:; born 31 December 1990, Kraków), also known by his stage name Pianohooligan, is a Polish jazz pianist and composer.

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Polish złoty

The Polish złoty (alternative spelling: zloty; Polish: polski złoty,;The nominative plural, used for numbers ending in 2, 3 and 4 (except those in 12, 13 and 14), is złote; the genitive plural, used for all other numbers, is złotych abbreviation: zł; code: PLN)Prior to 1995, code PLZ was used instead.

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Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.

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Ravenna

Ravenna (also; Ravèna, Ravêna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.

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Renaissance music

Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines.

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Roy Goodman

Roy Goodman (born 26 January 1951) is an English conductor and violinist, specialising in the performance and direction of early music.

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Sony Classical Records

Sony Classical is an American record label founded in 1924 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records.

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Stabat Mater (Vivaldi)

Stabat Mater for solo alto and orchestra, RV 621, is a composition by the Italian baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi on one of the Sorrows of Mary.

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Stanisław Moniuszko

Stanisław Moniuszko (May 5, 1819 – June 4, 1872) was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher.

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The Marriage of Figaro

The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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Theater an der Wien

The is a historic theatre in Vienna located on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district.

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Theodora (Handel)

Theodora (HWV 68) is a dramatic oratorio in three acts by George Frideric Handel, set to an English libretto by Thomas Morell.

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Vatican City

Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.

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Vincent Dumestre

Vincent Dumestre (born 5 May 1968) is a French lutenist.

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Waltraud Meier

Waltraud Meier (born 9 January 1956) is a retired German dramatic soprano and mezzo-soprano singer.

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Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra

The Warsaw Philharmonic, as it is formally known in English, or Orkiestra Filharmonii Narodowej w Warszawie ("National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw"), as it is legally set up, is a Polish orchestra founded in 1901, one of the nation's oldest musical institutions. Capella Cracoviensis and Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra are Polish orchestras.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capella_Cracoviensis

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Capella Cracoviensis, the Glossary

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See also

Culture in Kraków

Polish choirs

Polish orchestras

References