Augustinus, Sigismund III’s Forgotten Musician, Identified
Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarmińska
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9625-7366
Abstract
Augustinus was an Italian musician previously known to musicologists only by his first name and from a single source, written in May 1598, when King Sigismund III was setting off for Sweden with selected courtiers. A will kept at the AGAD, Municipal Records of Old Warsaw 11, fols. 145v–146, drawn up on 17 June 1598, includes a distorted version of the musician’s surname. This pro- vided a clue for further research, which led to his identification as a singer who had worked in Padua and Prague before arriving in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Keywords:
Augustinus, Agostino Trevisano, Agostino Trivisano, Italian musicians, Sigismund III’s royal court in Warsaw, Padua Cathedral, Rudolf II’s court in Prague, willReferences
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Barbara Przybyszewska-JarmińskaInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9625-7366
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