CZERWENKA
Title
CZERWENKA
Description
CERVENKA; Czervenka; Czerwenka,, Litaniae Lauretanae, I/C/10/3
D-Dl
Missing
Composer
CZERWENKA
Uniform Composer
CERVENKA; Czervenka; Czerwenka,
Title (Catalogo)
Litaniae Lauretanae
Location (1765)
Schranck I; Fach 10; Lage 3
SFL_combination
I/C/10/3
Scoring (1765)
‘a 4 voci co’ VVni Viola e Basso’
Materials (1765)
Partitura
Uniform Title
Litanies
Remarks
Sacred works listed in 18th century Bohemian catalogues are attributed to ‘Wen: Czervenka’ (Osek 1720+) and ‘D. Cžerwenka Anno 1720’, Cžervenka, and Czervenka (Catalogue of the Piarist college, Kosmonosích). Dlabač (Allgemeines historisches Künstler-Lexikon, 311) has five entries of musicians with the family name Czerwenka, each from the latter half of the 18th century.
This now-missing work is likely to be one of a group of five relatively short settings of the Litany of Loreto by Bohemian composers that were entered into this Catalogo (1765). Although each work comes from Zelenka’s music collection, none is listed into his Inventarium. These settings might have been acquired for use in the Dresden Catholic court church following the expansion in 1727 of the Kapellknaben ensemble, and of Marian devotions. In that year the annual letter to Rome reported: ‘At the beginning of the school year the number of young musicians was increased in order to amplify Marian devotions, and all Saturdays and also ferial days preceding Marian feasts will be celebrated with litanies [...].’ Annuae Litterae Missionis Dresdensis ad annum 1727, ARSI (I-Rar), Boh 143, 19.
Besides Czerwenka, the composers of similar Litanies of Loreto (all provenance of Zelenka) are Gerbich (Görbig), the Cistercian Grünberger (OC), Muck, and Schütze. Each composer is also represented with compositions listed into the Osek music catalogues. In some copies of these litanies the scribe gives a phonetic spelling or an interpretation of the written name of the composer: Korbischi = Görbig or Gerbich; Krusberger = Grünberger; Muk = Muck.
This now-missing work is likely to be one of a group of five relatively short settings of the Litany of Loreto by Bohemian composers that were entered into this Catalogo (1765). Although each work comes from Zelenka’s music collection, none is listed into his Inventarium. These settings might have been acquired for use in the Dresden Catholic court church following the expansion in 1727 of the Kapellknaben ensemble, and of Marian devotions. In that year the annual letter to Rome reported: ‘At the beginning of the school year the number of young musicians was increased in order to amplify Marian devotions, and all Saturdays and also ferial days preceding Marian feasts will be celebrated with litanies [...].’ Annuae Litterae Missionis Dresdensis ad annum 1727, ARSI (I-Rar), Boh 143, 19.
Besides Czerwenka, the composers of similar Litanies of Loreto (all provenance of Zelenka) are Gerbich (Görbig), the Cistercian Grünberger (OC), Muck, and Schütze. Each composer is also represented with compositions listed into the Osek music catalogues. In some copies of these litanies the scribe gives a phonetic spelling or an interpretation of the written name of the composer: Korbischi = Görbig or Gerbich; Krusberger = Grünberger; Muk = Muck.
Eitner
V. 3. (1900), 128–9: Czerwenka, Franz Joseph [...] Von einem Czerwenka besitzt das Archiv der kath. Kirche in Dresden eine Litania lauretana a 4 voci, c. 2 V. Va. ed org.
SLB Card Catalog
No card
Status
Score of Litaniae Lauretanae by Czerwencka missing from Dresden. Apparently known to Eitner, but not catalogued by SLB.
Sort Order
01-10-03
Collection
Citation
“CZERWENKA,” Catalogue of the Music Collection of the Dresden Catholic Court Church 1765, accessed July 28, 2024, http://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/hofkirchecatalogo1765/items/show/3597.