Music in the Milieu of Aleksander Józef Sułkowski (1695–1762)

Szymon Paczkowski


University of Warsaw (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7233-7620

Abstract

This article represents the first attempt in musicology to discuss the foundations of the musical patronage of Aleksander Józef Sułkowski (1695–1762). Sułkowski was a cabinet minister to King Augustus III until 1738, when he left the Dresden court to become lord of Rydzyna castle and owner of the town of Leszno and of a huge estate taken over from Stanisław Leszczyński; from 1752, he was also a prince of the Holy Roman Empire. The article discusses the following topics: Sułkowski’s negative role in the process of engaging Giovanni Bindi (known as Porporino, a singer in the ensemble maintained by King Augustus II) for George Frideric Handel’s London orchestra in 1731; the work of the Dresden-based composer Tobias Butz, Sułkowski’s secretary when the latter was a minister in the Secret Cabinet of Saxony (1733–38); Sułkowski’s contribution to organising musical life at the Dresden and Warsaw courts; music in Sułkowski’s milieu after he left Dresden for Rydzyna. The author has also attempted to reconstruct the make-up of the music ensemble maintained by Sułkowski at Rydzyna Castle and the oboe ensembles that existed in army regiments commanded by Sułkowski in Saxony and Poland.


Keywords:

Aleksander Józef Sułkowski, Augustus II, Augustus III, Polish-Saxon court, Dresden, Warsaw, Rydzyna, George Frideric Handel, Giovanni Bindi (Porporino), Johann Heinrich Heucher, Jan Dismas Zelenka, serenata, cantata, musical patronage

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2021-10-19

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Paczkowski, S. . (2021). Music in the Milieu of Aleksander Józef Sułkowski (1695–1762). Muzyka, 66(3), 57–91. https://doi.org/10.36744/m.973

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Szymon Paczkowski 

University of Warsaw Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7233-7620

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