Music at the Courts of Europe

The first owner of the Villa, Justus Louis Decius, invited here friends and scholars who came to see King Sigismund the Old. In the 19th century, Princess Marcelina Czartoryska organized social salons and historical concerts in the Villa. The intimate interior of the Villa is an ideal place for early music, performed on instruments modeled on historic prototypes, such as baroque violin, viola da gamba, harpsichord.

The series includes concerts accompanied by dance and vocal sequences. The concerts are honored by the performances of soloists of the court ballet “Ardente sole”, who perform historical dances in faithfully reproduced period costumes.

Katarzyna Trojanowska

An anniversary concert referring to the tradition of the Viennese court of Leopold I Habsburg.
(November 16, 2008).

The musicians of the Consortium Sedinum Court Band recreated the works of: William Brade, John Dowland, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Francis Piklington and Adam Jarzębski on ancient instruments (June 29, 2008).

The Consortium Sedinum Court Band presented works by Italian composers of the Renaissance: Fabricio Caroso, Cesare Negri, Georgio Mainerio and others (November 18, 2007).

The program included works by Luigi Boccherini and Mauro Guliani. The dances presented were a reflection of both trends prevailing in Europe, as well as a reference to the indigenous culture of Spain, (April 22, 2007).

The concert program included works by composers associated with the courts of princes, aristocracy and German clergy in the 17th century (October 18, 2006).

A performance on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of W. A. Mozart, prepared based on the most famous works of Austrian composers of the classical era, (April 23, 2006).

Musicians of the Consortium Sedinum Court Band presented the music of the Italian Renaissance
(October 14, 2005).

The CONSORTIUM SEDINUM court band presented the achievements of Ukrainian composers writing in the Mozart era (June 26, 2005).

The theme of the concert referred to the upcoming Christmas season and carol customs at the courts of Sigismund the Old and Sigismund Augustus, (December 5, 2004).

The Consortium Sedinum Early Music Ensemble performed works by Marin Maras, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Jean Philippe Rameau, Michel Corrette, (June 20, 2004).

An anniversary concert, during which artists presented works by composers associated with the royal court in Naples from the period when it was ruled by the Spanish Habsburg line (October 2003).

The music of German composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach, was accompanied by minuets as well as the march and dance of the King of Poland (April 2003).

The halls of Villa Decius were filled with music by Italian composers of the 16th and 17th centuries (December 2002).

This time the prince’s court was presented, where German dances were often performed (May 2002).

Viewers admired 17th-century dances performed at Viennese courts,
(April 2002).

Music lovers had the opportunity to listen to performances of works by little-known Polish composers, including Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński, Adam Jarzębski and Marcin Mielczewski (November 2001).

The concert featured the world-famous soprano Alison Pearce from the Royal Academy of Music in London (August 2001).

Thanks to the music, listeners were transported to seventeenth-century Italy
to the court of the Doges of Venice, (April 2001).

Music composed at the court of Frederick II the Great was performed (September 2000).

The audience listened to medieval and Renaissance music, the title referred to the extremely strong contacts in the Renaissance between the royal court and the residence of Justus Louis Decius, who invited friends and scholars who came to Sigismund the Old’s castle to his Villa.