The writer and composer
Johann Mattheson claimed that the composer was German and his name is sometimes recorded as "Peckel". Pękiel served the court in
Warsaw from about 1633. After the
Swedish invasion of Poland in 1655 he then moved to
Wawel Cathedral Chapel in
Kraków, where he was
Kapellmeister after the death of
Franciszek Lilius in 1657. After 1664 there are few references to him; the next Kapellmeister was appointed in 1670.[1][2]
29 of Pękiel's works survive, mostly in manuscript. The musicologist Bartłomiej Gembicki divides these into two stages; early baroque (Warsaw) and church music in the style of prima pratica (Kraków). He wrote the only Polish church
oratorioAudite mortales, on the topic of
The Last Judgement.[3]
^Sadie, Julie Anne (1998). "Pekiel, Bartlomiej (d c1670)". Companion to Baroque Music. Oxford University Press. p. 184.
ISBN9780198167044. Organist and leading Polish composer of his era who worked at the Warsaw court chapel...