Jerzy Liban z Legnicy

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Jerzy Liban (born 1464 in Legnic , died after 1546 in Krakow) was a Renaissance humanist, composer, music theorist, teacher and philologist. He spoke Latin , Greek and Hebrew . He lectured at the Krakow Academy (today the Jagiellonian University) and taught at the parish school at St. Mary's Church in Krakow. Jerzy Liban devoted two publications exclusively to music. The first - De accéntrum ecclesiasticórum exquísita ratióne (Selected method of applying church accents) - he dedicated to Piotr Gamrat , the bishop of Kraków (it was published without the printing date around 1539 ). It is an extensive compendium devoted to the performance issues of reciting liturgical texts (the study of accent). It also contains a four-voice piece (probably composed around 1501) - Ortus de Polonia , which is a development of an antiphon to St. Stanisław, the patron saint of Poland . The second musical treatise - De músicae láudibus orátio (Speech of praise about music) - was published in 1540 in a Krakow printing house under the supervision of Jan Halicz. It included, among others basic issues of music theory, a glossary of Greek names in the field of music, an extensive section devoted to the educational and ethical role of music, as well as musical examples: eight four-voice arrangements of the Magnificat and one four-voice arrangement of the psalm In exitu Israel de Aegypto . These two old prints are today the only source of knowledge about Lebanon's music . Sebastian Herburt - composer

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