ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.

ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.

ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745), [Messe] No 14. SS. Trinitatis, III/Z/10/1

Mus. 2358-D-31

ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.

ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745)

[Messe] No 14. SS. Trinitatis

Schranck III; Fach 10; Lage 1

III/Z/10/1

‘a 4 voci co’ VVni Vla e Flti’

Partitur; Parti

Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis

Masses

1736 ‘in die OO: SS’ (Credo)

Bound autogr. score of a Missa tota in 5 parts. Blue-grey covers to sections are kept in the binding. Despite the key signature (see the incipit here*), this work is in the key of a minor. Parts are missing.
Cover title part 1 (hand of Zelenka): A (upper left) Numero 53 (upper right) | Kirie ex Missa | SANCTISSIMAE | TRINITATA |TIS. | à 4 | C: A: T: B: | Violin 2 | Oboe 2 | Traversa 2 | Viola di | G: D: Z:
Cover title part 2 (hand of Zelenka): A (upper left); Numero 53 (upper right) | Gloria ex Missa | SANCTISSIMAE | TRINITATA | TIS. | di | G: D: Z:
Caption title: Gloria della Messa detta | Missa Sanctiss[im]ae Trinitatis.
Cover title part 3 (hand of Zelenka): C (upper left); Credo ex Nro 53 | Missa Sanctissimae | TRINITA= | TIS | di | G: D: Z:
Caption title: Credo ex Missa SSmae Trini | tatis.
Cover titles part 4 (hand of Zelenka): A (upper left); ex Nro 53 (upper right) | Sanctus ex Missa | S.S. Trinitatis.
Following page: Sanctus ex Missa | SS: Trini | tatis.
Cover titles part 5 (hand of Zelenka): A (upper left); ex Nro 53 (upper right) | Agnus Dei ex Missa | Sanctissimae TRINI | TATIS | di | G: D: Z:
The occasion for the composition of this Missa tota is unknown. It is likely that the Kyrie and Gloria of this modestly-scored mass (trumpets, timpani, horns are not included) were composed to be performed on Trinity Sunday in 1736 (Dedication of the Dresden Catholic Hofkirche which, in 1736, fell on 27 May) when the court and many of the royal musicians were in Poland. The Credo, however, was dated by Zelenka later that year at the conclusion of this movement when he wrote: ‘1736 in die OO: SS’ (Feast of All Saints). Thus, it would appear that this mass composed for the Dresden Hofkirche and dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was completed with a setting of the Credo on the feast of All Saints 1736.
Dedications: Concl. part 1 (Kyrie): A M D G B V M OO SS H AA P I R;
Concl. part 2 (Gloria): O A M D G B V M OO SS H AA P I R;
Concl. part 3 (Credo): A M D G B M V OO SS H AA P I R: 1736 in die OO:SS;
Concl.part 5 (Agnus Dei): O A M D G B V M OO SS H AA P I R.
In the later ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa ’ (c1784) score and parts for the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus are listed as [Messa] No: 14), Messa Votiva (III/Z/11/1).
Concordance:
CZ-Pkřiž, XXXV D 132. Seventeen performance parts from third quarter of the 18th c. for Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis were held in the by the Prague Kreuzherren Order. This mass was performed at the church of St Francis Serafin on the feast of the Dedication of the Church in 1781 and 1782. RISM ID no. 550255395
See Zelenka-Dokumentation, 144, Dok. 67; 288, ZWV 17 and (ed. Th. Kohlhase), EdM 103, 1987. Also Kohlhase, ‘Der Dresdener Hofkirchenkomponist’, 143-4.

Sächs. Landesbibliothek. Depositum der Kath. Hofkirche.

V. 10 (1904), 337–8: Zelenka, Johann Dismas [...] In Dresde. kath. Kirche , 21 vollständige Messen, alle in P. u. Stb.,

(Aut. 215) Mus. 2358-D-31<br />
Zelenka, Giovanni Disma: [Messen. Z 17]<br />
Messa Sanctissimae Trinitatis a 4 voci [mit Orch.] A moll. Part. u. St. 1 Bde m. 25 St. quer–4to Part.: Orig.-Mus.-Mscr. Kath. Hofkirche. Stimmen stehen gesondert

Score of Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis by Zelenka (Mus. 2358-D-31) kept at SLUB; 25 parts missing from Dresden.

ZWV 17

03/10/01