Adam of Wągrowiec

Polish composer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroPolish composer
PlacesPoland
isMusician Composer
Work fieldMusic
Gender
Male
BirthMargonin
Death27 August 1629Wągrowiec
The details

Biography

Adam of Wągrowiec (also Adam from Wągrowiec) (Polish: Adam z Wągrowca) (died 27 August 1629), was a Polish composer and organist, as well as a Cistercian monk in the Wągrowiec cloister.
He was born in Margonin. He was famous during his life, and was invited to inspect a new organ in Gniezno cathedral on 17 March 1620. Over twenty of his compositions for organ were found in the Samogitian tablature (ca. 1618) in Lithuania. Adam was the first to use a separate third staff for the organ pedalboard notation.
All of Adam's pieces were recorded by Rostislaw Wygranienko in 2006.

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