The University Library in Poznań holds a set of choirbook fragments discovered in Lviv (now Ukraine) before the Second World War, commonly referred to as the “Lviv Fragments.” They contain five Mass cycles by Franco-Flemish composers, as well as several minor works of local origin. Watermarks and other codicological features indicate a dating to around 1490. Significantly, the Lviv Fragments include the earliest known copy of Josquin des Prez’s celebrated Missa L’homme armé sexti toni, which invites a reassessment of the origins of this work.

This lecture will present the most recent findings concerning the Lviv Fragments and propose a hypothesis linking the genesis of Missa L’homme armé sexti toni to the patronage of King Matthias Corvinus. Current research suggests that Josquin may have spent a period at the Hungarian royal court in the aftermath of Corvinus’s conquest of Vienna in 1485. The final decade of the king’s reign witnessed a significant expansion of the royal chapel — a development further illuminated by Bonnie Blackburn’s recent discoveries regarding the Hungarian connections of another distinguished composer from the Low Countries, ­Alexander Agricola. Missa L’homme armé sexti toni appears to align with Corvinus’s crusading ideology, his political and artistic ambitions, and the musical interests of Queen Beatrix of Aragon.

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Curriculum Vitae

Paweł Gancarczyk graduated in musicology from the University of Warsaw, where he also obtained his PhD. He continued his education at Royal Holloway, University of London, and at Charles University in Prague. Since 1999, he has been affiliated with the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IS PAN), where he earned his habili­tation degree in 2012. Since 2016, he has served as editor-in-chief of the quarterly “Muzyka”, and since 2019, he has headed the Department of Musicology.

Gancarczyk taught at the University of Warsaw (2008–2012) and has held visiting professorships at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2022/23) and KU Leuven (2024). In 2020, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea and the Warsaw Scientific Society. He is a recipient of the Prix des Muses (2016) and the Award of the Committee on Arts Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2022).

His research focuses on the history of medieval and early modern music, particularly the musical culture of Central Europe and the study of musical sources. His most recent publications include a monograph on Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz and fifteenth-century music in Central Europe (2021).

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