FOSCHI
Title
FOSCHI
Description
PIETRAGRUA, Carlo Luigi Pietro (b Florence c1665–d Venice 1726) See II/P/10/4, Laetatus sum, I/F/14/7
D-Dl
Mus. 1900-E-1
Composer
FOSCHI
Uniform Composer
PIETRAGRUA, Carlo Luigi Pietro (b Florence c1665–d Venice 1726) See II/P/10/4
Title (Catalogo)
Laetatus sum
Location (1765)
Schranck I; Fach 14; Lage 7
SFL_combination
I/F/14/7
Scoring (1765)
‘a 4 voci co’ VVni Viola e Basso’
Materials (1765)
Partitura
Title Partitura
Laetatus sum
Uniform Title
Psalms (ps. 121)
RISM Links
Remarks
Score copy. Blue-grey cover.
Cover title: (hand of Zelenka): D (upper left) Nro 12 (upper right) | Laetatus sum | à 4 | C: A: T: B: | Violin 2 | Viola e | Basso Contin: | del S: Foschi.
To this score Zelenka added parts for vn. 1,2, and va. The text ‘Alma redemptoris ma[ter]’ is written in ink above the Soprano line of the opening three bars.
A note jotted at the conclusion of Zelenka’s Inventarium sketches a Vespers program for a Marian feast, or the feast of a female Saint, Virgin or Martyr. The list includes a setting of Laetatus sum attributed to Foschi. Except for the homophonic and syllabic setting of the opening of the Doxology (Gloria Patri), this work comprises a series of fugal sections reminiscent of Zelenka’s setting of ps. 125/126, In convertendo (ZWV 91). Incipit given in Zelenka-Dokumentation, 56, Nr. 105.
Horn (‘Die wichtigsten Schreiber’, 164), identifies the copyist of Mus. 1900-E-1 as ZS O.
This same work is also listed in this Catalogo (1765) under the name ‘Pietragrua’, who almost certainly was the composer. See II/P/10/4 and Poppe, ‘Kontinuität der Institution’, 78.
Perhaps upon discovering this to be a false attribution, Zelenka considered the possibility of recycling this acquisition as a setting of the Marian antiphon Alma redemptoris mater—hence the text ‘Alma redemptoris ma[ter]’ written in his hand above the Soprano line of the opening three bars.
On this setting, see Stockigt, ‘The Vespers Psalms of Jan Dismas Zelenka’, App. 2, No. 12.
Concordance:
CZ-Pak 374. An example of this same Laetatus sum attributed to Foschi held in the music archive of the Prague Metropolitan Cathedral. Štefan, ([374] Sign. 357), prov. Görbig and Novák. RISM ID no. 550269729.
NB: Zelenka’s Inventarium note ‘P’.
Cover title: (hand of Zelenka): D (upper left) Nro 12 (upper right) | Laetatus sum | à 4 | C: A: T: B: | Violin 2 | Viola e | Basso Contin: | del S: Foschi.
To this score Zelenka added parts for vn. 1,2, and va. The text ‘Alma redemptoris ma[ter]’ is written in ink above the Soprano line of the opening three bars.
A note jotted at the conclusion of Zelenka’s Inventarium sketches a Vespers program for a Marian feast, or the feast of a female Saint, Virgin or Martyr. The list includes a setting of Laetatus sum attributed to Foschi. Except for the homophonic and syllabic setting of the opening of the Doxology (Gloria Patri), this work comprises a series of fugal sections reminiscent of Zelenka’s setting of ps. 125/126, In convertendo (ZWV 91). Incipit given in Zelenka-Dokumentation, 56, Nr. 105.
Horn (‘Die wichtigsten Schreiber’, 164), identifies the copyist of Mus. 1900-E-1 as ZS O.
This same work is also listed in this Catalogo (1765) under the name ‘Pietragrua’, who almost certainly was the composer. See II/P/10/4 and Poppe, ‘Kontinuität der Institution’, 78.
Perhaps upon discovering this to be a false attribution, Zelenka considered the possibility of recycling this acquisition as a setting of the Marian antiphon Alma redemptoris mater—hence the text ‘Alma redemptoris ma[ter]’ written in his hand above the Soprano line of the opening three bars.
On this setting, see Stockigt, ‘The Vespers Psalms of Jan Dismas Zelenka’, App. 2, No. 12.
Concordance:
CZ-Pak 374. An example of this same Laetatus sum attributed to Foschi held in the music archive of the Prague Metropolitan Cathedral. Štefan, ([374] Sign. 357), prov. Görbig and Novák. RISM ID no. 550269729.
NB: Zelenka’s Inventarium note ‘P’.
Stamps
Sächs. Landesbibliothek. Depositum der Kath. Hofkirche (score).
Eitner
V. 4 (1901), 38: Von einem Foschi ohne Vornamen in Dresd. kath. Kirche: Laetatus sum 4 voc. 2 V. Va. Org. P. u. Stim.
SLB Card Catalog
Foschi, . . . Laetatus sum à 4 [con strom.] Part. o. J. 1 H. 4to . Mus.-Mscr. Kath. Hofkirche
Status
Score copy of Laetatus sum attributed to Carlo Foschi (Mus. 1900-E-1) held by SLUB.
Sort Order
01-14-07
Collection
Citation
“FOSCHI,” 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/3664.