ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.

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Title

ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.

Description

ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745), Motetti: No 1. Gaude laetare, III/Z/13/5

D-Dl

Mus. 2358-E-35

Composer

ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.

Uniform Composer

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

Location (1765)

Schranck III; Fach 13; Lage 5

SFL_combination

III/Z/13/5

Scoring (1765)

‘a Sopr. Solo con Stromenti’

Materials (1765)

Partitura; Parti

Title Partitura

Gaude laetare

Uniform Title

Motets

Remarks

Autogr. score with grey-blue cover.
Cover title (autogr.): a # (upper left); Nro 9 (upper right) | Gaude laetare | Mottetto à Tenore Solo | VV 2 2 | Oboe 2 | Viola | e | Basso Continuo | di | G: D: Zelenka.
No dedication.
Concl. of score: Dresda | 17 Maii 1731.
NB: To his listing of this work in the Inventarium, Zelenka added: ‘de SS: Trinitate’.
Although listed in the Catalogo (1765) as a soprano solo, originally this work was composed for tenor – subsequently altered from tenor to soprano, probably for one of the two male soprano castrati of the Hofkapelle: Ventura Rochetti (‘Venturini’) or Giovanni Bindi. A similar re-scoring by Zelenka for soprano of a work originally set for solo tenor occurred with the psalm setting Laudate pueri (D-Dl, Mus. 2358-D-67; ZWV 81).
Jóhannes Ágústsson, in ‘The Secular Vocal Collection of Jan Dismas Zelenka’ (19–20), suggests that this was sung as a ‘debut’ work written by Zelenka for the tenor Johann Joseph Götzel who only recently had entered the Dresden Hofkapelle. Together with Tobias Butz (Putz) Johann Joseph Götzel had previously been engaged as a horn player in the personal Hoffstadt of Saxon Electoral Prince Friedrich August II (later August III) and Maria Josepha. See Ágústsson and Stockigt, ‘The Eestablishment ofthe Catholic Cemetery in Dresden’, 42,45, 57.
Zelenka-Dokumentation, 143, Dok. 57; 304, ZWV 268.
In the later ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) score and parts are listed under 5 Motetti: No: 1) Gaude laetare (III/Z/13/15). NB: There, the scoring given is: ‘à Tenore Solo co’VVni, Oboi, Vla ed Org.’

Stamps

Sächs. Landesbibliothek. Depositum der Kath. Hofkirche

Eitner

V. 10 (1904), 337: Zelenka, Johann Dismas [...] In Dresde. kath. Kirche [...] Motetten u. s. w.

SLB Card Catalog

(Aut. 245) Mus. 2358-E-35<br />
Zelenka, Giovanni Disma:<br />
Motetto: Gaude laetare a Soprano ò Tenore Solo [mit Orch. Z 168] A-dur. Part. u. St. (Dresda 1731) 1 H. m. 22 St. 4to Mus.-Mscr. Part.: Orig.-Ms. Kath. Hofkirche. Stimmen stehen gesondert

Status

Autogr, score of Gaude laetare by Zelenka held by SLUB; 22 parts missing from Dresden.

Identification

ZWV 168

Sort Order

03/13/05

Citation

“ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.,” 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/4302.