CALDARA, Ant[oni]o

CALDARA, Ant[oni]o

CALDARA, Antonio (b Venice c1671–d Vienna 1736), Miserere, I/C/7/5

Mus. 2170-E-4

CALDARA, Ant[oni]o

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

Miserere

Schranck I; Fach 7; Lage 5

I/C/7/5

‘a 4 voci con stromenti’

Partitura; Parti

Miserere mei Deus

Psalms (ps. 50)

Bound score copy. Parts are missing from Dresden.
Cover on the binding with label to correspond with the entry in the missing Catalogo (c1784): Schranck No. I. | Lit: C. 9. Fach 4. Lage | Miserere | à 4 voci | co’ VVni Viola ed Org. | Partitura e parti | del Sigr. Caldara. Incipit.
This label obliterates an earlier label, now illegible (except A 45, in pencil).
Inner blue-grey wrapper to the score with title (hand of Zelenka): gb (upper left); Nro. . . (upper right) | Miserere mei Deus | à 4 | Violin 2 | Viole 2 | ed | Organo | di | S: Caldara. Caption (red pencil, in the hand of F. A. Schubert?): Caldara.
Zelenka’s markings of instrumentation (addition of oboes; additions to the string parts; ‘Tutti’ and ‘R[ipieno]’ indications), figuring of the bass line (post 1725), and markings of tempo are seen throughout the copy. Horn identifies the copyist as ZS 1 (Die wichtigsten Schreiber, 165).
Zelenka added a dedication at the end of the score: A M D G B V M OO SS H AA P I R.
Concordance: CZ-Pkřiž, XXXVI B 264. Set of nine parts (C conc; A. conc; T; B conc; vn. 1,2; A tbn. conc; T tbn. conc; org.) from the second quarter of the 18th century is held in the Kreuzherren collection Prague. RISM ID no. 550283049.
Horn (Hkm, 160) notes that an un-revised copy of this setting is kept in Dresden, Mus. 2170-D-5,1. It probably provided the model for the copyist, who left all systems above the vocal part empty so that instrumentation could be added later. This source has the stamps of the Bibliotheca Musica Regia and Sachs. Landes-Bibl. ‘A 46.c’ is pencilled on the upper left of the title page. Incipit given in Zelenka-Dokumentation, 53, Nr. 81a.
On Caldara’s Miserere setting held by SLUB see Horn (Hkm, 160).

Sachs. Landes-Bibl.

A 45

V. 2 (1900), 276: Caldara, Antonio [...] Mss. in Dresd. Mus: […] Miserere mei 4 voc. 2 V. 2 Viole ed Org. Ms. A 45. P.Mss. Dresd. kath. Kirche [...] 3 Psalmen f. Chor u. Orch.

Caldara, Antonio: Miserere mei Deus a 4 [con Strom.ti]. Part u. St. o. J. 2 Bde u. 15 St. [Organo u. Singst. zus. geb.!] quer-4to u. 4to . Mus.-Mscr. Kath. Hofkirche: Stimmen. Stimmen stehen gesondert. [Titel u. Korretituren von Zelenka’s Hand].

Two score copies of Miserere by Caldara, one with Zelenka’s reworkings (Mus. 2170-E-4) held by SLUB; 15 parts to accompany one of these sources is missing from Dresden.

01-07-05