Zdzisław Jachimecki’s "Italian influences in Polish music" : an invitation to study the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reception of Italian musical culture in Poland

In his book Jachimecki discussed the Italian features of works by Polish composers, Italian musicians active in Poland and their oeuvre and the Polish reception of both the Italian repertoire and their performing practice. The book proved to be important for the musicologists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They shifted their attention, however, to the music by Italians and to the reception of Italian compositions. Jachimecki’s successors also interpreted ‘Polish’ music in the context of the ‘Italian’ repertoire created in Poland and of the European repertoire. Consequently, they identified Italian components present in vernacular music