Sebastian z Felsztyna

[3] Sebastian z Felsztyna was probably born in Felsztyn, Kingdom of Poland (now Skelivka, Ukraine).

In 1507 he entered Kraków University, the same year as his compatriot, the composer Mikołaj z Chrzanowa.

While archaic in style, they show the influence of the Franco-Flemish school, and are a rare early example of four-voice polyphony in Poland.

[4] Sebastian published a collection of his hymns in 1522 in Kraków, Aliquot hymni ecclesiastici, but no copies exist.

[1] His most popular was Opusculum musices (c. 1519), which was published in Kraków five years after theoretical treatises first appeared in Poland.

Part of a treatise on singing plainchant ( Modus regulariter accentuandi lectiones matutinales prophetias necnon epistolas et evangelia , published anonymously in Kraków, 1518, but attributed to Sebastian) [ 1 ]