Aria de Passione Ludwika Maadera. Sylwetka kompozytora w świetle zachowanych źródeł i literatury przedmiotu

Louis Maader (also known from sources as Ludovico or Lodovico Maader) was a composer acting on Polish territory in the second half of the eighteenth century. He came to Jasna Góra at the end of September 1784, and was appointed as a bandmaster, serving them until the end of 1798. The information about his life and work is scarce. We do not know what exactly were his previous activities. However, it is known that he came to Poland from Moravia, specifically from Dub nad Moravou - a small town near Olomouc, where Maader was employed during the years 1777–1783 as one of the five instrumentalists – probably as violinist. In the archives of Jasna Gora we can find his nineteen works in the form of manuscripts. Most of them were written by the composer himself. These include: Masses, Offertories, antiphons, litanies and other songs in the arias. Arias belong to the most interesting works of the composer. These include: Aria in D (Ave mundi spes Maria), Aria I in G (En tanto quem Labore), Aria de Passione in Dis (and Oh Jesu spinis acerbissimis), Aria II in G (Sexaginta jam sunt anni) Aria III (vidit inter chorus Angelorum).