Jacek Szczurowski
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Szczurowski was born in Red Ruthenia in Poland-Lithuania on 15 August 1716.[2] He entered a Jesuit monastery on 14 November 1735 as a novice and received the orders as a Jesuit on November 20, 1737.[1] He was a member of the Kraków Music College run by the Jesuits. In the college's inventory from 1741, 38 works by Jacek Szczurowski are already mentioned. He served as assistant to the prefect of the college[1] and later was sexton in monasteries in Kalisz, Krosno, Danzig (today Gdańsk), Thorn (today Toruń), Kraków, Jarosław, Posen (today Poznań) and Wałcz (near Poznań: the last record about him comes from here.) He died after 1773; the exact date of death is not known.[2]
Few of his vocal compositions survive, although Szczurowski was one of the most prolific Polish composers of the 18th century.[1]
