Mateusz Rudkowski

{{Short description|Ukrainian-Polish composer}}

Mateusz (or Mieczysław)His name is always printed in the scores simply as M. Rudkowski. Different libraries give different versions (M., Mat., Mateusz or Mieczysław). Wanda Bogdany-Popielowa in [https://books.google.com/books?id=W2xLAAAAYAAJ Ruch muzyczny, 1857-1862] (p. 299) calls him Mieczysław. Rudkowski (also {{langx|uk|Матвій Рудковський}}; c. 1809 — c. 1887) was a Polish composer of choral and piano music.

He received his musical education in Lviv and Vienna. In 1850-1860 he was kapellmeister of the choir of Greek Catholic seminary in Lviv, and directed the Ukrainian choir of Stauropegion Institute.

Rudkowski was a member of the Galician Music Society in Lviv, and taught its members choral and especially church singing.[http://ebuw.uw.edu.pl/publication/2095 Ruch Muzyczny 1858 No. 19], p. 146; [http://ebuw.uw.edu.pl/publication/2097 Ruch Muzyczny 1858 No. 21], p. 161. Some of his compositions were published at his own expense and by Żupański in Poznań, and others by Wild and Kallenbach in Lviv. He composed a mass performed in Lviv in 1855 or 1856.[http://ebuw.uw.edu.pl/publication/2097 Ruch Muzyczny 1858 No. 21], p. 161. Sowiński states that it was a funeral mass for Adam Mickiewicz, confusing it with Peter von Winter's Requiem performed on 19 January 1856.

Rudkowski's compositions were regularly reviewed in Ruch Muzyczny: Opp. 2 and 3 in 1860,[http://ebuw.uw.edu.pl/publication/2237 Ruch Muzyczny 1860 No. 40], p. 654-655. Opp. 4 and 5 in 1861.Twice: [http://ebuw.uw.edu.pl/publication/2282 Ruch Muzyczny 1861 No. 33], p. 526 and [http://ebuw.uw.edu.pl/publication/2287 Ruch Muzyczny 1861 No. 38], p. 599-602