Marcin Leopolita

He attended the Jagiellonian University (Collegium Maius) and may have studied under the Polish composer Sebastian z Felsztyna and Jan Jelen of Tuchola.

By the age of 20 he was a member of the royal music ensemble at the court of Zygmunt August, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

Four motets, written in Latin, (Cibavit eos, Mihi autem, Resurgente Christo and Spiritus Domini) are preserved in organ tablature.

[3] All four works are known from a single source, a tablature formerly belonging to the Warsaw Musicological Society which now only survives as a photographic copy, the original having been destroyed during the Second World War.

It is based on themes from four Polish vernacular Easter songs—hence the designation 'Paschalis'—of which Chrystus Pan zmartwychwstał is the most prominent.