Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarmińska is Professor and Head of the Department of Musicology at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her main area of research is the music of the late Renaissance and Baroque, especially in the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania.

• Contents: Musical patronage of King Ladislaus IV Vasa of Poland and Bishop Charles Ferdinand Vasa – Research history of Marcin Mielczewski (d. 1651) – Mielczewski’s biography – Mielczewski’s music and the repertoire of the Polish Vasa chapels – Issues relating to the performance of Mielczewski’s compositions.

Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarmińska is Professor and Head of the Department of Musicology at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her main area of research is the music of the late Renaissance and Baroque, especially in the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania.

• Contents: Musical patronage of King Ladislaus IV Vasa of Poland and Bishop Charles Ferdinand Vasa – Research history of Marcin Mielczewski (d. 1651) – Mielczewski’s biography – Mielczewski’s music and the repertoire of the Polish Vasa chapels – Issues relating to the performance of Mielczewski’s compositions.

Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarmińska is Professor and Head of the Department of Musicology at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her main area of research is the music of the late Renaissance and Baroque, especially in the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania.

• Contents: Musical patronage of King Ladislaus IV Vasa of Poland and Bishop Charles Ferdinand Vasa – Research history of Marcin Mielczewski (d. 1651) – Mielczewski’s biography – Mielczewski’s music and the repertoire of the Polish Vasa chapels – Issues relating to the performance of Mielczewski’s compositions.