Pierwsze kompozycje Jana Nepomucena Bobrowicza (utwory bez numeru opusu)

Abstract

The first pieces published by Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz are not marked with the opus number, therefore they cause difficulties in chronological ordering of the surviving compositions. All of those unnumbered pieces could constitute the first five opera, of which there is no information in musical literature. One of those works is “Polonez” (a supposed title), published in 1826 in Lviv, by Franciszek Piller. “Katalog poloników muzycznych w zbiorach austriackich” (The catalogue of musical Polonica in Austrian collections) states at no. 378: “Bobrowicz Jan Nepomucen: Grandes variationes pour le Guitarre seule sur un due favories de l’opera Don Juan. Op. 6 Leopol Piller”. It may be accepted, then, that opus 6 is the first available numbered composition, published by Piller in Lviv in 1826, and then by Breitkopf and Härtel in Leipzig in 1832. Other publications without the opus number are “Dziewięć walców ułożonych na gitarę hiszpańską: przez ucznia Giulianiego, wyszły w składzie muzyki Fr. Klukowskiego”, as well as „Polonez, 6 walców i 2 mazurki”, published by A.Brzezina in 1827, waltzes for a Spanish guitar, published in 1829 and “Dziewięć walców ułożonych na gitarę hiszpańską”, which were published by Klukowski in 1827; further, there are “Souvenir de la Pologne”, grand potpourri for guitar or piano and cello, published in 1835 in Leipzig by Breitkopf and Härtel, “Hochzeit- Walzer”, consisting of twelve wedding waltzes for piano, published by Breitkopf and Härtel, “Taniec polski” for guitar, published by Absonic in Wrocław and M.Comre in Paris, and three marches for guitar, in manuscripts, which belong to the Rischel and Birket-Smith collection in the King’s Library in Copenhagen.