ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Title
ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Description
ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745), [Motetti]: No 2. Pro Nativitate Dni. O Magnum Mysterium, III/Z/13/6
D-Dl
Mus. 2358-E-501; -E-501a
Composer
ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Uniform Composer
ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745)
Title (Catalogo)
[Motetti]: No 2. Pro Nativitate Dni. O Magnum Mysterium
Location (1765)
Schranck III; Fach 13; Lage 6
SFL_combination
III/Z/13/6
Scoring (1765)
‘a Contr. S. con Strom. e Flauti’
Materials (1765)
Partitura; Parti
Title Partitura
Motetto pro Nativitate O Magnum Mysterium
Uniform Title
Motets
Date (Catalogo)
1723; c1728+
Remarks
Mus. 2358-E-501: Score copy without cover. Recitative (O magnum mysterium) and aria (Dormi Deus incarnate) in hand of Zelenka copyist ZS 1 (from early 1730s). Five staves [vl. 1; vl 2; vla; Tenor; b.c.].
Caption title: Motetto pro Nativitate.
Mus. 2358-E-501a: Set of 16 parts with two grey-blue wrappers. The outer wrapper has a label to correspond with the Hofkirche Catalogo (c1784): Schranck No. III | Lit. Z. 13. Fach 16. Lage | No. 2) Motetto | Pro Nativitate Domini | O Magnum Mysterium | à Contr’alto Solo | co’ VVni Viola Flauti ed Org. | Partitura e parti | del Sigr Zelencka | Incipit
Cover title (autogr.): No 1 (upper left) L:J:C: No. 2 (upper right; non- autogr.) | Mottetto à Contralto Solo | Violini | Flauti Traversi 2 | Viola | e | Basso Continuo | di | G:D:Z.
Parts (these have been re-paginated and reflect more than two occasions of performance): Alto solo; Violino I x 3; Violino 2 x 3; Violetta x 2; Traversa 2 x 2; Flauto a bec x 2; Violone R e Fagotto (‘e Fagotto’ in Zelenka’s hand); Violoncello o Fagotto (‘o Fagotto’ in Zelenka’s hand); Organo. Scribes are Zelenka, ZS 1, ZS 2 (from 1730), Johann Georg Kremmler (from 1733), and one identified by RISM as S-Dl-040.
The aria ‘Dormi nate, dormi Deus’ was originally No. 29, ‘Reviresce, effloresce pacis’ from Zelenka’s Melodrama composed for Prague, 1723 (see III/Z/25/5 in this catalogue).
In the revision of that aria as a motet, parts in Zelenka’s hand for two flutes—as well as their inclusion in the instrumentation given on the cover to the parts—suggest that the first working occurred after the return to Dresden of Johann Joachim Quantz as second flautist to Buffardin. The later addition of two somewhat simplified parts for recorders might be an addition, or an alternative to a pair of flutes. The use of flutes and/or recorders (these would have been played either by oboists of the Hofkapelle, or by Kapellknaben: the four ‘Flauten’ that Fürstenau [II, 37] notes that were purchased in 1709 for the Catholic court church were probably recorders) provide the pastoral effect required for a work performed in the Catholic court church on Christmas Eve.
Purple pencil markings in both score and parts suggest a much later use of this motet for Christmas Eve in the Dresden Hofkirche.
See Zelenka-Dokumentation, 114, Dok. 17; 304, ZWV 171.
See Kohlhase, ‘Zelenkas geistliche Parodien’, 419–34.
In the later, undated ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) score and parts are listed under 5 Motetti: No: 2) Pro Nativitate Domini. O Magnum mÿsterium (III/Z/13/16). There, the scoring given is: ‘à Contralto Solo co’VVni, Vla, Fl: ed Org.’
A listing in the non-thematic music catalogue of the Cistercian monastery at Osek (Northern Bohemia) might refer to this work: f. 26b: [Gradualia] de festis Solemnionibus … [ab A: 1723]: ‘Aria per il Natale de N: J: S: à Contralto. Zelenka’ (?ZWV 171?).
Caption title: Motetto pro Nativitate.
Mus. 2358-E-501a: Set of 16 parts with two grey-blue wrappers. The outer wrapper has a label to correspond with the Hofkirche Catalogo (c1784): Schranck No. III | Lit. Z. 13. Fach 16. Lage | No. 2) Motetto | Pro Nativitate Domini | O Magnum Mysterium | à Contr’alto Solo | co’ VVni Viola Flauti ed Org. | Partitura e parti | del Sigr Zelencka | Incipit
Cover title (autogr.): No 1 (upper left) L:J:C: No. 2 (upper right; non- autogr.) | Mottetto à Contralto Solo | Violini | Flauti Traversi 2 | Viola | e | Basso Continuo | di | G:D:Z.
Parts (these have been re-paginated and reflect more than two occasions of performance): Alto solo; Violino I x 3; Violino 2 x 3; Violetta x 2; Traversa 2 x 2; Flauto a bec x 2; Violone R e Fagotto (‘e Fagotto’ in Zelenka’s hand); Violoncello o Fagotto (‘o Fagotto’ in Zelenka’s hand); Organo. Scribes are Zelenka, ZS 1, ZS 2 (from 1730), Johann Georg Kremmler (from 1733), and one identified by RISM as S-Dl-040.
The aria ‘Dormi nate, dormi Deus’ was originally No. 29, ‘Reviresce, effloresce pacis’ from Zelenka’s Melodrama composed for Prague, 1723 (see III/Z/25/5 in this catalogue).
In the revision of that aria as a motet, parts in Zelenka’s hand for two flutes—as well as their inclusion in the instrumentation given on the cover to the parts—suggest that the first working occurred after the return to Dresden of Johann Joachim Quantz as second flautist to Buffardin. The later addition of two somewhat simplified parts for recorders might be an addition, or an alternative to a pair of flutes. The use of flutes and/or recorders (these would have been played either by oboists of the Hofkapelle, or by Kapellknaben: the four ‘Flauten’ that Fürstenau [II, 37] notes that were purchased in 1709 for the Catholic court church were probably recorders) provide the pastoral effect required for a work performed in the Catholic court church on Christmas Eve.
Purple pencil markings in both score and parts suggest a much later use of this motet for Christmas Eve in the Dresden Hofkirche.
See Zelenka-Dokumentation, 114, Dok. 17; 304, ZWV 171.
See Kohlhase, ‘Zelenkas geistliche Parodien’, 419–34.
In the later, undated ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) score and parts are listed under 5 Motetti: No: 2) Pro Nativitate Domini. O Magnum mÿsterium (III/Z/13/16). There, the scoring given is: ‘à Contralto Solo co’VVni, Vla, Fl: ed Org.’
A listing in the non-thematic music catalogue of the Cistercian monastery at Osek (Northern Bohemia) might refer to this work: f. 26b: [Gradualia] de festis Solemnionibus … [ab A: 1723]: ‘Aria per il Natale de N: J: S: à Contralto. Zelenka’ (?ZWV 171?).
Stamps
Sächs. Landes-Bibl.
Eitner
V. 10 (1904), 337: Zelenka, Johann Dismas [...] In Dresde. kath. Kirche [...] Motetten u. s. w.
SLB Card Catalog
Mus. 2358-E-501<br />
Zelenka, [Jan Dismas]<br />
[O magnum mysterium. Z 171] Motetto pro Nativitate (f. A solo, 2 vl, vla u. bc, E dur)<br />
Partitur = Ms 1. H. 18 Jh., Dresden<br />
1 Heft (= 10 S.) m. Titelumschlag des Kapellarchivs [...] <br />
Mus. 2358-E-501a<br />
Zelenka, Jan Dismas<br />
[O magnum mysterium. Z 171] Motetto a Contralto solo, Violini 2, Flauti tr. 2, Viola e B.c. (vgl. dir Part. -E-501)<br />
16 Stimmen = Ms (teil autogr.) 1. H. 18 Jh., Dresden
Zelenka, [Jan Dismas]<br />
[O magnum mysterium. Z 171] Motetto pro Nativitate (f. A solo, 2 vl, vla u. bc, E dur)<br />
Partitur = Ms 1. H. 18 Jh., Dresden<br />
1 Heft (= 10 S.) m. Titelumschlag des Kapellarchivs [...] <br />
Mus. 2358-E-501a<br />
Zelenka, Jan Dismas<br />
[O magnum mysterium. Z 171] Motetto a Contralto solo, Violini 2, Flauti tr. 2, Viola e B.c. (vgl. dir Part. -E-501)<br />
16 Stimmen = Ms (teil autogr.) 1. H. 18 Jh., Dresden
Status
Autogr. score of O magnum mysterium by Zelenka (Mus. 2358-E-501) and 16 part-autogr. parts (Mus. 2358-E-501a) to accompany the score held by SLUB.
Identification
ZWV 171
Sort Order
03/13/06
Collection
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/4303.