DURANTE
Title
DURANTE
Description
DURANTE, Francesco (b Frattamaggiore Aversa 1684–d Naples 1755), Messe: No 1 . . . defect, I/D/11/6
D-Dl
Mus. 2397-D-10
Composer
DURANTE
Uniform Composer
DURANTE, Francesco (b Frattamaggiore Aversa 1684–d Naples 1755)
Title (Catalogo)
Messe: No 1 . . . defect
Location (1765)
Schranck I; Fach 11; Lage 6
SFL_combination
I/D/11/6
Scoring (1765)
‘a 5 voci co’ VVni Viola e Basso’
Materials (1765)
Partitura; Parti
Title Partitura
Missa Modestiae
Uniform Title
Masses
RISM Links
Remarks
Score copy of a Missa tota.
Zelenka’s workings were made after 1725 and before early 1729. The parts are missing.
Caption title: Kyrie.
Settings of the Kyrie and Gloria have page references to Osanna, Benedictus, Dona nobis, indications that Zelenka ‘stretched’ Durante’s setting. The Quoniam is set twice. At the conclusion of the Mass Zelenka wrote: NB Dona nobis ex Kyrie primo pag: 1.
Horn (Hkm, 179) notes that this was composed as a Kyrie–Gloria pair, then ‘stretched’ by Zelenka. This is demonstrated in the writing of the source in Mus. 2397-D-10: the main section of the note text of Kyrie and Gloria was copied by ZS O (Horn: Die wichtigsten Schreiber, 172). Zelenka added the viola part, dynamics, scoring instructions, and figured the bass line. The Sanctus and Agnus are entirely in Zelenka’s hand.
In circa 1727 Zelenka acquired six mass settings by Italian and Imperial composers. He entered these into his Inventarium immediately after listings of masses he composed in 1726 (No. 7: Missa Paschalis ZWV 7; No. 8: Missa Nativitatis Domini ZWV 8) and circa 1727 (No. 9: Missa Corporis Domini[ci]). Immediately following the listings of these six masses Zelenka entered his own Missa Charitatis ZWV 10, also from circa 1727.
This group of six masses was entered into the Inventarium (p. 5) as
No. 10, Antonio Caldara, Missa Providentiae (D-Dl, Mus 2170-D-7);
No. 11, Francesco Durante, Missa Modestiae (D-Dl, Mus. 2397-D–10);
No. 12, Francesco Mancini, Missa Temperantiae (D-Dl, Mus. 2203-D–2);
No. 13, Alessandro Scarlatti, Missa Magnanimitatis (now missing);
No. 14 (p. 6), Johann Joseph Fux, Missa Fiduciae (D-Dl, Mus. 2130-D-1), and
No. 15, Johann Georg Reinhard, Missa Vita hominis brevis est (D-Dl, Mus. 2793-D-2).
Each mass was ‘stretched’, and each was adapted to accommodate the musical conditions of the Dresden Hofkirche. Each mass entry is accompanied by the letter ‘P’. (A concordance for each mass is found today in Prague).
See Bacciagaluppi & Stockigt, ‘Italian Manuscripts of Sacred Music in Dresden’, 147–8, and Stockigt ‘From Italy to Zerbst via Prague and Dresden: The transmission and transformation of a Missa attributed to Alessandro Scarlatti’ (forthcoming).
This present work is almost certainly the mass titled ‘Messa a 5. Voci’ by ‘Franc. Durante’ entered into the music catalogue of Electress Maria Antonia.
Concordance:
CZ-Pak, 319a. A set of 13 parts for Kyrie e Gloria by Durante. An Italian copy? Štefan, ([331] Sign. 319a), gives a cross reference to a missing set of parts for a ‘Messa triplicato’ by Durante, ([335] Sign. 319b), prov. Görbig, Novák.
NB: Zelenka’s Inventarium note: ‘P’. Incipits given in Zelenka-Dokumentation, 55, Nr. 88.
Zelenka’s workings were made after 1725 and before early 1729. The parts are missing.
Caption title: Kyrie.
Settings of the Kyrie and Gloria have page references to Osanna, Benedictus, Dona nobis, indications that Zelenka ‘stretched’ Durante’s setting. The Quoniam is set twice. At the conclusion of the Mass Zelenka wrote: NB Dona nobis ex Kyrie primo pag: 1.
Horn (Hkm, 179) notes that this was composed as a Kyrie–Gloria pair, then ‘stretched’ by Zelenka. This is demonstrated in the writing of the source in Mus. 2397-D-10: the main section of the note text of Kyrie and Gloria was copied by ZS O (Horn: Die wichtigsten Schreiber, 172). Zelenka added the viola part, dynamics, scoring instructions, and figured the bass line. The Sanctus and Agnus are entirely in Zelenka’s hand.
In circa 1727 Zelenka acquired six mass settings by Italian and Imperial composers. He entered these into his Inventarium immediately after listings of masses he composed in 1726 (No. 7: Missa Paschalis ZWV 7; No. 8: Missa Nativitatis Domini ZWV 8) and circa 1727 (No. 9: Missa Corporis Domini[ci]). Immediately following the listings of these six masses Zelenka entered his own Missa Charitatis ZWV 10, also from circa 1727.
This group of six masses was entered into the Inventarium (p. 5) as
No. 10, Antonio Caldara, Missa Providentiae (D-Dl, Mus 2170-D-7);
No. 11, Francesco Durante, Missa Modestiae (D-Dl, Mus. 2397-D–10);
No. 12, Francesco Mancini, Missa Temperantiae (D-Dl, Mus. 2203-D–2);
No. 13, Alessandro Scarlatti, Missa Magnanimitatis (now missing);
No. 14 (p. 6), Johann Joseph Fux, Missa Fiduciae (D-Dl, Mus. 2130-D-1), and
No. 15, Johann Georg Reinhard, Missa Vita hominis brevis est (D-Dl, Mus. 2793-D-2).
Each mass was ‘stretched’, and each was adapted to accommodate the musical conditions of the Dresden Hofkirche. Each mass entry is accompanied by the letter ‘P’. (A concordance for each mass is found today in Prague).
See Bacciagaluppi & Stockigt, ‘Italian Manuscripts of Sacred Music in Dresden’, 147–8, and Stockigt ‘From Italy to Zerbst via Prague and Dresden: The transmission and transformation of a Missa attributed to Alessandro Scarlatti’ (forthcoming).
This present work is almost certainly the mass titled ‘Messa a 5. Voci’ by ‘Franc. Durante’ entered into the music catalogue of Electress Maria Antonia.
Concordance:
CZ-Pak, 319a. A set of 13 parts for Kyrie e Gloria by Durante. An Italian copy? Štefan, ([331] Sign. 319a), gives a cross reference to a missing set of parts for a ‘Messa triplicato’ by Durante, ([335] Sign. 319b), prov. Görbig, Novák.
NB: Zelenka’s Inventarium note: ‘P’. Incipits given in Zelenka-Dokumentation, 55, Nr. 88.
Eitner
V. 3 (1900), 285–6: Durante, Francesco [...] Kathol. Kirche in Dresden: 2 Kyrie u. Gloria [...]
SLB Card Catalog
Durante, Francesco: Kyrie e Gloria à 5 voci [con. strom.] Bdur. 4/ 4. o. J. mit 27 St. 4to u. 4to . Part. u St. Partitur defect!. Mus.-Mscr. Kath. Hofkirche. Stimmen stehen gesondert. part. 9= Ms Zelenka!) = 52 f (4o ). Kyrie-Gloria-Sanctus-Agnus Dei! (Dona nobis ‘ex Kyrie’)
Status
Damaged score copy of Missa Modestae (Nr. 1) by Durante (Mus. 2397-D-10) held by SLUB; 27 parts to accompany the score missing from Dresden.
Sort Order
01-11-06
Collection
Citation
“DURANTE,” 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/3637.