FABRI (attributed)

FABRI (attributed)

FABRI Annibale Pio (b 1697 Bologna–d 1760, Lisbon), [Psalmi]: Beatus vir, I/F/13/3

Mus. 2720-E-1,3

FABRI (attributed)

FABRI Annibale Pio (b 1697 Bologna–d 1760, Lisbon)

[Psalmi]: Beatus vir

Schranck I; Fach 13; Lage 3

I/F/13/3

‘a 4 voci co’ VVni Viola e Basso’

Partitura

Beatus vir

Psalms (ps. 111)

Bound volume containing copies of five psalm settings, each with original blue-grey or pale brown cover. The Magnificat, listed with these psalms in Zelenka’s Inventarium, now is missing from Dresden, and it was not listed by Eitner. Parts are not shown in the Catalogo 1765 to accompany this setting. Wolfgang Horn states (Hkm, 133, without source) that the identification of this Vespers cycle attributed to Annibale Pio Fabri may be traced back to Moritz Fürstenau.
Title page 3: Nr 4 (upper right; Zelenka’s hand) | Fabri. Centre: Schranck No. I | F. 13. Fach, 3. Lage | Beatus vir | à 4 voci | co’ VVni Vla e Basso | Partitura sola. Incipit. This catalogue information corresponds with the location given for this listing in the Catalogo (1765). This set of psalms by Fabri must have been acquired by Zelenka before he assembled the Psalmi varii (pre-1735).
Each score of Fabri’s settings (de Confessore) bears signs of revision by Zelenka, including the addition of orchestration marks (‘Tutti’, ‘Solo’, ‘VV’ - implying the addition of oboes), additions to the string parts, figuring of and alterations to the bass line, addition of dynamics, articulation, and marks of tempo. Although Eitner reported that these works were in the hand of Zelenka, Horn (‘Die wichtigsten Schreiber’, 164, 174) identifies the copyist as ‘ZS Ovar’ (c1725–early 1730s).
Fabri’s musical connections and the circuits he travelled as a singer (including London seasons for Handel) place him within one of the streams of performers/composers whose works are incorporated into Zekenka’s repertoire of Vespers psalms.
On these settings of Fabri see Stockigt, ‘The Vespers Psalms of Jan Dismas Zelenka’, App. 2, No. 37.
Incipit given in Zelenka-Dokumentation, 55, Nr. 93.
Concordances:
A-KR, E 16/73, attr. to Ferdinand Schmidt (1750–1799) RISM 600178377 (without incipit);
A-Sd, A 1205, attr. to Mathias Öttl (1735–1742) RISM 659001692;
CH-E, 607,8 (Ms.4388), attr. to Vincenzo Schmid (1700–1790) RISM 400013074 (without incipit);
CZ-Pak, Sign. 1180, attr. to Giovanni Schmid (prov. Sehling) RISM 550268418;
CZ-Pkřiž, XXXV E 24, attr. to ‘Schmidt (1750–1774) RISM 550266834;
CZ-Pkřiž, XXXV E 16, attr. to Schmidt (1725-1749) RISM XXXV E 16;
CZ-Pnm, XXXVIII A 482, attr. to Haas (no date) RISM 550031092 (without incipits);
H-PH, Mus.Jes.85, attr. to Schmidt (1748) RISM 530003315 (without incipit);
PL-Wu, RM 4932, attr. to Ferdinand Schmid (1738) RISM 300514178.

Sachs. Landes-Bibl.

V. 3 (1900), 373–4: Fabri, ...Von Kompositionen kenne ich nur in der Kgl. Musikalien Samlg. (Dresd.) Ms. A79 von Zelenka's Hd. 5 Psalmen gesänge zu 4 Stim. mit 2 V. Va. und P. unter dem Namen Fabri.

Two cards:1. Fabri, . . . . : Dixit C-dur 4/4; Confitebor A-moll 4/4; Beatus vir G-dur 4/4; Laudate Dominum F-dur 4/4; Laudate pueri C-dur 4/4. à 4 voci [con strom.] Part. u. St. o. J. 1 Bd. mit 31 St. quer-4to u. 4to . [Auf dem Titel u. in der Part. mit handschriftl. Bemerkungen Zelenka’s versehen.] Mus.-Mscr. Kath. Hofkirche. Stimmen stehen gesondert.2. Fabri: Beatus vir à 4 [voci con strom.] [Auf d. Tit. u. in der Part. m. hs. Bem. Zelenka’s versehen.] [Ps. 112]. Part. quer.-4to . Mus.-Mscr. 2 an: Dixit.

Score copy of Beatus vir attributed to Annibale Pio Fabri (Mus. 2720-E-1,3) held by SLUB; 31 parts to accompany the complete [?] Vespers cycle missing from Dresden.

01-13-03