Bartłomiej Pękiel (Pekiel) (b. after 1600; † died 1670 in Cracow) was a Polish composer of the Baroque period. His purported German origin is not documented. Pękiel was organist at the royal court from 1630 and assistant to Marco Scacchi, the royal kapellmeister in Warsaw. Later he was personally given this position which he held from 1649 to 1655. In 1657 he relocated to Krakow as Kapellmeister at the ''Wawel Cathedral''. After 1664 his trail in the records but his death is assumed to have occurred around 1670.
Pękiel, along with Marcin Mielczewski and Adam Jarzębski, was decisive in the artistic level of the Warsaw court chapel, which at that time was marked by Italian influences and incorporated elements of polychoralism. His dialogue oratorio ''Audite mortales'' is the only contribution of a Polish Baroque composer to this genre of works. The approximately 30 surviving sacred compositions by Pękiel, for polyphonic choir, partly with instrumental accompaniment are composed in the "concertato'' style that originated from Italy.
