Abstract The present article reflects on the shortage of studies concerning music-composing women in the 18th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and focuses on one unique figure among those female musicians – Maria Antonia Walpurgis, an aristocrat of Polish descent, who demonstrated versatile talents. Thoroughly educated in her childhood, she was a poet, composer, singer, and director of her own stage works. This paper discusses the aristocratic artist’s most important experiences and achievements in the field of music, as well as analysing her earliest surviving work, the cycle of 6 Arias for Soprano, Strings and Basso Continuo (1747), which Walpurgis may well have performed herself. The arias have been preserved in a manuscript kept at the Sächsische Landesbibliothek in Dresden, shelf mark Mus.3119-F-11. My analysis assesses their style and aesthetic.

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音乐制作女性贵族

摘要 本文反映了 18 世纪波兰立陶宛联邦对音乐作曲女性研究的匮乏，重点关注女性音乐家中的一个独特人物——波兰血统的贵族玛丽亚·安东尼娅·沃尔普吉斯 (Maria Antonia Walpurgis)，她展现了多才多艺的才华。 . 她在童年时期接受过全面的教育，是一位诗人、作曲家、歌手和她自己的舞台作品的导演。本文讨论了这位贵族艺术家在音乐领域最重要的经历和成就，并分析了她最早幸存的作品，女高音、弦乐和低音提琴的 6 首咏叹调的循环（1747 年），沃尔普吉斯很可能亲自表演过。这些咏叹调保存在德累斯顿 Sächsische Landesbibliothek 的手稿中，书架标记为 Mus.3119-F-11。