REINHARDT [and Zelenka]

REINHARDT [and Zelenka]

REINHARDT, Johann Georg (b 1676|7–d Vienna 1742), [2 Messe] No 2, II/R/16/8

Mus. 2793-D-2

REINHARDT [and Zelenka]

REINHARDT, Johann Georg (b 1676|7–d Vienna 1742)

[2 Messe] No 2

Schranck II; Fach 16; Lage 8

II/R/16/8

‘a 4 voci co’ VVni Viola Basso’

Partitura; Parti

Missa Vita hominis brevis est

Masses

Score copy. Blue grey cover. Parts are missing.
Cover title (hand of Zelenka): g# (left) No. 2 (centre) Nro 15 (right) | Missa Vita hominis | brevis est | à 4 | C:A:T:B: | Viol. 2 | e | Viola | col | Organo | del | S. Reinhardt | Organista di S. M. Imp.
Caption title (hand of Zelenka): Missa Vita hominis brevis est | Del. Sig: R:
The notation of the Kyrie: Christe: Kyrie settings (pages 3 to 7) is in the hand of Zelenka. Text is missing. At the conclusion: Sequitur Gloria. Zelenka’s pre early 1729 style bass clef is used.
The Gloria (without text) begins in the hands of ZS O (vn. 1; vn. 2; va.) and Zelenka (CATB; b.c.), also with the pre-1728/early 1729 style bass clef. Figuring is in Zelenka’s hand. The settings of Sanctus, Osanna, Benedictus are also in Zelenka’s hand, without text.
Incipits of all movements are given in Zelenka-Dokumentation, 63, Nr. 196.
Eitner (V. 8, 181) attributes all Reinhardt works listed in the Catalogo (1765) to Mathias Karl.
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).

Concordances:
1. CZ-Pkřiž, XXXVI A 26. A set of 14 parts for the complete mass setting (titled Missa | a 4. Voci Conce | 2 Violini | 2 Tromboni ad libitum | 4 Ripieni | & Organo | Del Sig:re Gio: Giorgio Reinhard | organista de S. M. Cesarea | - Sumptibus Ch: Gayer) in the Kreuzherren collection, Prague. These materials came into this collection before 1734. Another set of 14 parts, formerly attributed to S. Caspari but bearing the same inscription as above, also exists (same shelf number). The incipits of the work attributed to Caspari agree with this Dresden source (Mus. 2793-D-2).
2. CZ-Pak, 1075. Štefan, ([1125] Sign. 1075), prov. Sehling .

Sächs. Landesbibliothek. Depositum der Kath. Hofkirche.

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V. 8 (1903), 181): attributes the works listed in the Catalogo (1765) under Reinhardt to Mathias Karl Reinhard[t]: In Dresden kath. Kirche befinden sich von einem Reinhardt 2 vollständige Messen zu 4 Stim. 2 V. Va. Ob. Tromb. Timp. [...]

Reinhar[d]t, [Johann Georg]: Missa Vita hominis brevis à 4 [con strom.]. G-dur. C. Part. u. St. o. J. 1 H mit 15 St. qu.-4to u. 4to. Mus. -Mscr. Kath Hofkirche. Stimmen stehen gesondert

Score of Missa Vita hominis brevis by Reinhardt (with additions by Zelenka) held by SLUB (Mus. 2793-D-2); 15 parts missing from Dresden.

02-16-08