Literatura do śpiewania. Nuty z tekstem w ofercie wydawców na ziemiach polskich w latach 1801–1875

Abstract

Various songs printed on Polish lands in the nineteenth-century were an important part of the contemporary publishing offer. Apart from the most frequently published artistic songs, also vocal parts of stage pieces (predominantly from opera or comic opera) as well as vocal and instrumental church compositions were released. A considerable number of such publications came out in Warsaw, whereas in the capitals of particular districts the number of new volumes was much lower. Over the discussed years there were published many songs (50%): in Warsaw – first with the lyrics written by Kazimierz Brodzinski, Franciszek Karpinski, Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, then by Jan Tomasz Seweryn Jasinski, and finally by Jan Checinski, Teofil Lenartowicz and Jozef Bohdan Zaleski. In other places songs were published mainly after 1850. A wide distribution going beyond annexed territories was typical of the poetry books by Edmund Wasilewski (Cracow, Vilnius, Poznan), Jozef Bohdan Zaleski (Lvov, Cracow, Poznan), Jan Czeczot, Adam Mickiewicz and Stefan Witwicki (Vilnius, predominantly due to Stanislaw Moniuszko’s prolificacy as a composer, with special reference to his Śpiewniki domowe ).