CALDARA, Ant[oni]o

CALDARA, Ant[oni]o

CALDARA, Antonio (b Venice c1671–d Vienna 1736), [Messe] No 9, I/C/7/1

Mus. 2170-D-14

CALDARA, Ant[oni]o

CALDARA, Antonio (b Venice c1671–d Vienna 1736)

[Messe] No 9

Schranck I; Fach 7; Lage 1

I/C/7/1

‘a 4 voci co VVni Viola Basso e Trombe’

Partitura; Parti

Missa Quid mihi et tibi

Masses

Set of 26 parts in hand of various copyists, with additions by Zelenka and one other scribe. Some parts seem to be additions to the original set. The score is missing from Dresden.
Cover title: No: 8 | D | Caldara | Messa à 4 co’ V.V. e Viola | partit[ur]a e parti Cavate.
Zelenka’s addition of an independent vn. 1 part to the opening bar provides the incipit given in the Catalogo (1765).
At the head of the solo alto part is written in Zelenka’s hand: ‘per la Notte Santa’ (Christmas Eve). This remark suggests at least one occasion on which this work was performed in Dresden.
The title given in Zelenka’s Inventarium – ‘Quid mihi et tibi’ (RISM and the Zelenka-Dokumentation, p. 31 read this as ‘Quia mihi et tibi’) – a reference to the response of Jesus to Mary at the wedding at Cana: ‘Quid mihi et tibi est mulier?’ (John 2: 4).
Parts (8 vocal; 18 instrumental ): Soprano; Contr’Alto; Tenore Concer.; Basso Concertato; Hautbois I; Hautbois II; Violino I; Violino 2; Viola; Fagotto (‘ô Violone Rip.’ an addition); Organo o Tiorba (‘o Tiorba’ an addition); Canto; Alto (signed ‘Johannes Tha[m]me’); Tenore (signed ‘Johannes Thamme’); Basso; Violino I (first two staves pinned over with an alteration in Zelenka’s hand); Violino I (M: P: = Monsieur Pisendel; first two staves pinned over with an addition in Zelenka’s hand); Violino II; Violino II; Viola; Viola; Violoncello; Fagotto; Fagotto; Violone Ripieno. The hands of ZS 2 and Giovanni Alberto Ristori are seen in parts for this Mass in A. (Mus. 2170-D-14: I/C/7/1). These performance materials bear similarities to parts prepared for Francesco Poppe’s Litaniae Lauretanae (Mus. 3610-E-2a: II/P/1/6). These works come from the early 1730s.
NB: Zelenka’s margin note: ‘P’.
Concordances:
Several concordances for this mass are found in RISM. The incipits, however, do not correspond with the opening of this work because they are based upon the part for choral soprano. The Dresden source shows that Zelenka added an accompanying violin flourish to the opening bars. The incipit given in 1765 is based upon this addition.
1. CZ-Pkřiž, XXXV C 124. Seven parts for ‘Missa Sanctis Michaelis Archangeli’ in the Kreuzherren collection Prague (1700-1732, first third of the 18th century). RISM ID no. 550248881.
2. CZ-Pak, 198. Štefan, ([212] Sign. 198), prov. Novák. Set of ten parts, ‘Ex liberalitate Illmi DD Episcopi Comitis D. Sporck donati et de perditi Credo assumpta è post Obitum D. Görbig Cap. . .’. (the Credos generously given by Bishop Count Sporck [Prague Canon and titular Bishop of Adraa Johann Rudolph Sporck (1696-1759), nephew of Franz Anton Sporck, and the uncle of Johann Wenzel Sporck] recovered after the death of Dominus Görbig). RISM ID no. 550267243.
Incipits given in Zelenka-Dokumentation, 52, Nr. 70.
On Caldara sources held by SLUB see Horn (Hkm, 160–66).

Sächs. Landes-Bibl.

V. 2 (1900), 275: Caldara, Antonio [...] No listing of parts for Caldara masses.

Caldera [sic], Antonio: Messa V a 4 voci con v.v.ni, viola ed Org. senza Partitura. Adur. 4/4. o. J. 26 St. 4to . Mus. -Mscr. St. Kath. Hofkirche

Twenty-six parts of Missa Quid mihi et tibi by Caldara (Mus. 2170-D-14) held by SLUB; score copy with Zelenka’s reworkings is missing from Dresden and not catalogued by SLB.

01-07-01