Między recepcją a atrybucją. Kompozycje Esaiasa Reusnera mł. i Jacques’a de Saint- Luca w utworach Johanna Christopha Lichtensteigera z kolekcji tabulatur lutniowych cystersów krzeszowskich

The only source which may indicate Johann Christoph Lichtensteiger as the author of lute works is the lute manuscript PL-Wu RM 4139 from the collection of Grüssau (Krzeszów) Cistercians which contains compositions for ensemble but only the lute part has survived. This manuscript allows us to attribute two suite cycles to J.Ch. Lichtensteiger. In musicological research so far, his name has appeared in the context of landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel’s court where he probably met the Silesian lutenist Silvius Leopold Weiss twice. The story is connected with some assumptions concerning a competition between the musicians that was parodoxically finished in Lichtensteiger’s favour. However, the sources of inspiration for Lichtensteiger’s works are much more certain. They were compositions by the Flemish lutenist and guitarist Jacques de Saint-Luc and the Silesian lutenist Esaias Reusner junior. It may be supported by the found concordances to some parts of Lichtensteiger’s compositions. One of the compositions ascribed to him by a scribe of the PL-Wu RM 4139 manuscript is an example of not only the attribution of the compositions but also the reception of other lutenists’ works which was quite common in the 17th and 18th centuries. However, it is significantly interesting that the reception concerns one of the Silesian lutenist and the composition’s attribution to Lichtensteiger is possible only thanks to the Silesian lute tablature manuscripts of Grüssau (Krzeszów) Cistercians.