{"id":563,"date":"2020-04-18T12:51:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T12:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etnofon.pl\/?post_type=archiwum&p=563"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:03:28","slug":"etnologisches-museum-staatliche-museen-zu-berlin-berliner-phonogramm-archiv","status":"publish","type":"archiwum","link":"https:\/\/etnofon.pl\/en\/archiwum\/etnologisches-museum-staatliche-museen-zu-berlin-berliner-phonogramm-archiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethnological Museum. Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Subcollection of Polish recordings from Opole Silesia
Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin Abteilung Musikethnologie, Medien-Technik und Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv Arnimallee 23-27 14195 Berlin
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Recordings saved on Edison\u2019s Phonograph Cylinders were made by a middle school teacher from Berlin, Paul Schmidt, in \u015al\u0105sk Opolski in July 1913. According to the written documentation the collection included 40 wax cylinders, though only 32 exist to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The repertoire includes Polish and Morawian folk songs and a regional instrumental music, as well as two prayers. Melodies are mainly triple-meter, dance melodies like folk walzes, walcerki<\/em>. There is also a couple chodzony<\/em> (a folk polonaise<\/em>) melodies. Moreover, there are 23 acapella performances, and two accompanied by instruments. Apart from the songs about the folk provenience, we can also listen to melodeclamation of Ojcze Nasz<\/em> (The Our Father<\/em>) and Zdrowa\u015b Mario<\/em> (Hail Mary<\/em>), A wczora z<\/em> wieczora<\/em> Christmas carol and an Easter antiphon Regina coeli laetere<\/em> translated to Polish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the details on the tapes\u2019 boxes, the recordings were made in Polnisch-Rasselwitz (today\u2019s Rac\u0142awiczki), Sedsch\u00fctz (where most of the recordings come from, today\u2019s Dziedzice) and Pechh\u00fctte (today\u2019s Smolarnia). Moreover, we know some of the performers\u2019 names, i.a. Paulina Popio\u0142ek, Anna Pachotto, Andreas Rusch and two women\u2019s surnames: Sacher and Lubczyk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recordings are being kept in the Berlin Phonogramm Archive, under the name Schmidt Schlesien 1913. They have been very well preserved, the quality of the technical documentation is very high, which was a rare thing during that time it was made. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is worth mentioning that the Musuem owns many other recordings of a great value to the history of polish enthnography, such as the recordings made by \u0141ucjan Kamie\u0144ski during the interwar period (which e.g. include Micha\u0142 Kulawiak playing pipes). Those are perhaps the only remaining part of the Pozna\u0144 Regional Phonographic Archive collection \u2013 Kamie\u0144ski send a couple of recordings from Nowy Tomy\u015bl to galvanize them in Berlin, before the war started. The recordings have been released by the Archive on an anniversary album, but they can also be found on a CD, which was attached to Jacek Jackowski\u2019s publication Zachowa\u0107 Dawne Nagrania. Zarys historii dokumentacji fonograficznej i filmowej polskich tradycji muzycznych i tanecznych, cz. 1 (prze\u0142om XIX i XX w. \u2013 do drugiej wojny \u015bwiatowej)<\/em>. [Outline of history of phonographic and film documentation of polish musical and dance traditions part 1 (at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries \u2013 until 2nd world war)]. Paul Schmidt\u2019s Polish collection from the Ethnologisches Museum within the Polish folk music \u2013 phonographic heritage <\/em>has been digitalized by Albrecht Wiedmann. The recordings have been\u00a0 studied and described by Jacek Jackowski and Mariusz Pucia. Phonographic documentation has been restored by Anna Rutkowska. The recordings have been published as a Polish traditional music recorded by Paul Schmidt in 1913 with a phonograph in Opolian Silesia. The first recordings of an Opolian Silesia traditional music from the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv<\/a><\/em> album, a part of The Oldest Sounds Documents of Polish Traditional Music<\/em> series. It was one of the publications that got the Phonogramm Archive of the PAN Institute of Arts the first prize in 2017 Fonogram \u0179r\u00f3de\u0142<\/em> (Phonogramm of Sources<\/em>) contest, held by Polish Radio.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4525,"parent":0,"template":"","translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.1","language":"en","enabled_languages":["pl","en"],"languages":{"pl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etnofon.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archiwum\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etnofon.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archiwum"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etnofon.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/archiwum"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etnofon.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etnofon.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}