We have a coincidence here, so I'll expand on what Roman and Ned have written, and combine the subjects of two recent postings here: "Re: Ms 4022" and "Bartolomiej Pekiel." The topics have much in common, since Ms 4022 is the one Roman calls "The Danzig Manuscript," with pieces sometimes erroneously attributed to Pekiel.
Ms 4022 now in Berlin was one of two lute manuscripts in the Stadtbibliothek in Danzig (Gdansk) before WW_II (see the stamp at the bottom of the first page). (The other is Ms 4021.) They were long reported to have been destroyed during the war. Recently Ms 4022 (and Ms 4021?) turned up in a small archive in Germany, perhaps brought there when Germans were expelled from Danzig at the end of the war. Recently they seem to have been given over to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, retaining their old call numbers. Ms. 4022 probably dates from the first or second decade of the 17th century, and has an east European repertory, as some of you have noticed, including German, French, Italian and English works. Some titles are familiar, e.g, La Monica, Pavan d'Espagna, Heydruken Tanz, Baletto Rutteno (!), Allemande d'Amour, Rolandt, Spagnoletta, Parlament of Englandt, Duda, (a bagpipes piece) and intabulations of German secular and sacred Lieder (many by Hans Leo Hassler). The named composers are familiar: Ballard, V.B. (Bakfark?), Perrichon, Piccinini, Nani di Milano, Gaultier, Mercure, et al. (Some titles and attributions were trimmed away during binding.) The pieces on folios 20-32 (etc.) have obtained some notoriety, so to speak. And the current New Grove online perpetuates the confusion. Some 40 lute dances are identified solely with the initials "B.P." in the margin. To some this suggested Bartolomeij Pekiel (d. ca. 1670), a composer little known in the west. Polish musicians consider Pekiel one of the truly "great" Polish composers of the early baroque, a well deserved reputation, judging from the quality of his music. He specialized almost entirely in sacred music, written in the polychoral Venetian concertante style of composers like the Gabrielis: works for large choral, solo and instrumental forces. A nice selection of his sacred music is Polish Baroque: Pekiel and Contemporaries with the Ensemble Euopeen Wm. Byrd, Graham O'Reilly, cond. (Ambronay CD #010). Well, the "B.P." attribution stuck to Pekiel, and accordingly the pieces made their way into a critical series of "monuments" of Polish music, Maria Szczepanska, ed., Bartolomiej Pekiel: 40 utworow na lutniea [="Bart. Pekiel: 40 pieces for lute"], in Wydawnicto Dawnej Muzuki Polskej, vol. 30. [Krakow]: Polskie wydawnictwo muzyczne, 1955. I own Stanley Buetens's well worn personal copy of this publication. Stanley undoubtedly drew from it for the anthology from which Ned made his nice recording. [1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v'X65jfhUcg There are a number of problems with the attribution. Pekiel began working as a professional in 1631, which suggests a birth date around 1610. In that case he would have been a child when the pieces were copied into the Danzig Manuscript. Accordingly the Pekiel lute edition was withdrawn by the publishers and vol. 30 was replaced with what is surely the correct resolution of B.P., Polish Dance, "Baletto Polacco": Zofia Steszewska, ed., Tance polskie z Tabulatury gdanskiej (I po. XVII w.): na lutnie. Ibid., 1965. It is nice to have Ms 4022 available on line. The music is worthy of your attention. [2]http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/dms/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN61 8787879&PHYSID=PHYS_0001 AJN -- References 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v%C2%B4X65jfhUcg 2. http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/dms/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN618787879&PHYSID=PHYS_0001 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
