Szczecin Early Music Festival

For the nineteenth time, Fundacja Akademia Muzyki Dawnej invites to Szczecin to experience the greatest event of 2022 concert season: Szczecin Early Music Festival.

This year's topic, Musica Poetica, aims at presenting the heritage of Italian, German and Polish composers related to 17th-century court music in Europe. Masterpieces of melopoesis, madrigal poetry and religious anthems will be performed: music that centuries ago was heard both in church and in manor chambers.  

The festival performances will cover the following authors: Giovanni Gabrieli, Marco Scacchi, Tarqunio Merula, Massimiliano Neri, Giovanni Valentini, Johann Samuel and Adam Drese, Christian Herwich, Franciszek Lilius, Adam Jarzębski, Marcin Mielczewski, Bartłomiej Pękiel - masters admired in EUrope of their time. Their output will be presented in historical interiors of old Szczecin by Szczecin Vocal Project and Consortium Sedinum bands and the main attraction of this year's event will be a rising star of historical performance from Germany Capella Jenensis. 

A vital element of the festival schedule will be educational program carried out throughout West-Pomeranian region: lectures and workshops showing historical performance practice held by the artists.

The Szczecin Early Music Festival will be held on account of the partnership of Fundacja Akademia Muzyki Dawnej foundation with Szczecin City Office, West-Pomeranian Voivodeship, the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation and the National Museum in Szczecin.                                          

The 19th Szczecin Early Music Festival 2022 Musica Poetica

28.10.2022, 7.00 P.M.
Inaugural concert: Da chiesa et da camera. Music at the Royal Court of the House of Vasa in Warsaw
Artists: Szczecin Vocal Project, Consortium Sedinum, Paweł Osuchowski - artistic management
Willa Lentza, al. Wojska Polskiego 84
Tickets: PLN 30/ PLN 20.
Pre-ordered: PLN 25/ PLN 15.

29.10.2022, 6.00 P.M.
Partiturbuch Ludwig. Polish-German Inspirations in Instrumental Music of the 17th Century
Artists: Capella Jenensis (Germany)
The National Museum in Szczecin - the Szczecin History Museum, ul. Księcia Mściwoja II 8
Tickets: PLN 30/ PLN 20.
Pre-ordered PLN 25/ PLN 15.

30.10.2022, 6.00 P.M.
Musica Poetica. Marco Scacchi and Adam Drese in the Eye of the Baroque Sound
Artists: Capella Jenensis (Germany) & Consortium Sedinum 
Zespół Szkół nr 8 im. Stanisława Staszica w Szczecinie ul. 3 Maja 1a
Tickets: PLN 30/ PLN 20.
Pre-ordered: PLN 25/ PLN 15.

Tickets available at www.famd.pl or in Republika Rozmaitości Fanaberia in Szczecin since 03.10.2022. 

Lecture and workshop admission is free of charge

Partiturbuch Ludwig  is one of the largest musical collections of the 17th century created by Jacob Ludwig, a court composer of Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg in Wolfenbüttel. The collection of 117 music scores contains unique pieces by masters of the epoch active in Germany from Stuttgart through Eisenach, Weimar, Arnstadt to Vienna. They show stylistic influences of various musical cultures and traditions, including Italian and Polish ones. As a band permanently active in the city by the river Saale, it cultivates cultural heritage of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt restoring memory of musical traditions of the region. 

The Szczecin Early Music Festival will be held on account of the partnership of Fundacja Akademia Muzyki Dawnej foundation with Szczecin City Office, West-Pomeranian Voivodeship, the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, the National Museum in Szczecin and the Lentz Villa.

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