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{{short description|Czech-Austrian composer}}

{{short description|Czech-Austrian composer}}

{{Other uses|Mazak (disambiguation)}}

[[File:Mazak1-tit.jpg|thumb|Cultus Harmonicus op.I – Opus Minus]]

[[File:Mazak1-tit.jpg|thumb|Cultus Harmonicus op.I – Opus Minus]]

”’Alberich Mazak”’, also ”’Alberik Mazák”’ (1609 – 9 May 1661) was a 17th–century [[composer]] from an area then part of the [[Kingdom of Bohemia]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brewer |first=Professor Charles E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kdmhAgAAQBAJ |title=The Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat and their Contemporaries |date=2013-01-28 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |isbn=978-1-4094-9422-5 |pages=132 |language=en}}</ref>

”’Alberich Mazak”’, also ”’Alberik Mazák”’ (1609 – 9 May 1661) was a – [[composer]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brewer |first=Professor Charles E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kdmhAgAAQBAJ |title=The Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat and their Contemporaries |date=2013-01-28 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |isbn=978-1-4094-9422-5 |=132}}</ref>

==Early life==

==Early life==

Mazak was born in [[Racibórz|Ratibor]] to a Czech family. After studying [[music]] and [[philosophy]], he entered [[Heiligenkreuz Abbey]] in 1631 and was ordained a priest in 1633.

Mazak was born in [[Racibórz]] to a Czech family. After studying music and philosophy, he entered [[Heiligenkreuz Abbey]] in 1631 and was ordained a priest in 1633.

==Works, editions and recordings==

==Works, editions and recordings==

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Czech-Austrian composer

Alberich Mazak, also Alberik Mazák (1609 – 9 May 1661) was a Czech-Austrian composer.^[1]

Mazak was born in Ratibor in the Kingdom of Bohemia (now Racibórz, Poland) to a Czech family. After studying music and philosophy, he entered Heiligenkreuz Abbey in 1631 and was ordained a priest in 1633.

Mazak created more than 300 compositions. He wrote masses, litanies, offertories, antiphons, psalms and sacred cantatas. The instruments he used most were the violin, the trumpet, the bassoon, the viola da gamba, the cornet and the sackbut. His compositions, predominantly motets, collected under the title Cultus harmonicus, were published by him in Vienna, Opus I in 1649, Opus Minus (II) in 1650 and Opus Maius (III) in 1653. The last one is missing today.

A baroque lute built in 1631, which had been played at Mazak’s ordination, was used in the recording of Wolf Erichson‘s Stift Heiligenkreuz Geistliche Musik (Sacred Music from Holy Cross Monastery), directed by Niederaltaicher Scholaren and Dr. Konrad Ruhland and published by Sony Music under the SEON label (1970–1980).