ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Title
ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Description
ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745), [Motetti]: No 4. Pro quos criminis, III/Z/13/8
D-Dl
Mus. 2358-E-34
Composer
ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Uniform Composer
ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745)
Title (Catalogo)
[Motetti]: No 4. Pro quos criminis
Location (1765)
Schranck III; Fach 13; Lage 8
SFL_combination
III/Z/13/8
Scoring (1765)
‘a Tenore Solo co’ VVni Vla Oboè e 4 Flauti’
Materials (1765)
Partitura; Parti
Title Partitura
Mottetto per il Natale del N: S: J:
Uniform Title
Motets
Date (Catalogo)
[1723]; c1725
RISM Links
Remarks
Autogr. score with blue-grey cover.
Cover title (autogr.): Mottetto per il | Natale del | N: S: J: | a 4 Flau: | Viol. 2 | Viola 1 | Tenore | e Organo | di Giov: D: | Zelenka.
The recitative of this motet was originally set as ‘Proh! quae aëris inclementia’, No. 23 from Zelenka’s Melodrama of 1723 (see III/Z/25/5 in this catalogue), followed by the aria ‘Auster lux perennis’.
See Zelenka-Dokumentation, 114, Dok. 17 and 304, ZWV 172. Pairs and flutes and recorders (oboists often doubled on the recorder) provide the pastoral effect required for a work to be performed on Christmas Eve. See also Th. Kohlhase, ‘Zelenkas geistliche Parodien’, 419–34.
I have suggested that in this aria of the Melodrama Zelenka made a musical reference to a phrase from Fux’s opera of 1716: Orfeo ed Euridice. See Stockigt, Jan Dismas Zelenka, 128, and Ex. 4.12.
In the later ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) score and parts are listed under 5 Motetti: No: 4) Pro Nativitate Domini. Pro quos criminis (III/Z/13/18). The scoring given is ‘à Tenore Solo co’VVni, Vla, Ob: 4 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]: ‘Motteto per il Natale. T. solo il Concert: Zelencka’ (ZWV 172?).
Cover title (autogr.): Mottetto per il | Natale del | N: S: J: | a 4 Flau: | Viol. 2 | Viola 1 | Tenore | e Organo | di Giov: D: | Zelenka.
The recitative of this motet was originally set as ‘Proh! quae aëris inclementia’, No. 23 from Zelenka’s Melodrama of 1723 (see III/Z/25/5 in this catalogue), followed by the aria ‘Auster lux perennis’.
See Zelenka-Dokumentation, 114, Dok. 17 and 304, ZWV 172. Pairs and flutes and recorders (oboists often doubled on the recorder) provide the pastoral effect required for a work to be performed on Christmas Eve. See also Th. Kohlhase, ‘Zelenkas geistliche Parodien’, 419–34.
I have suggested that in this aria of the Melodrama Zelenka made a musical reference to a phrase from Fux’s opera of 1716: Orfeo ed Euridice. See Stockigt, Jan Dismas Zelenka, 128, and Ex. 4.12.
In the later ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) score and parts are listed under 5 Motetti: No: 4) Pro Nativitate Domini. Pro quos criminis (III/Z/13/18). The scoring given is ‘à Tenore Solo co’VVni, Vla, Ob: 4 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]: ‘Motteto per il Natale. T. solo il Concert: Zelencka’ (ZWV 172?).
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-34<br />
Zelenka, Giovanni Disma: [Proh, quos criminis. Z 172]<br />
Motetto: Pro Nativitate Domini. Pro[h] quos criminis a Tenore [oder Soprano] Solo [mit Orch.] C-dur. Part u. St. 1 H. m. 21 St. Mus. Mscr. Part. = Orig. Mscr. Katho[l]ische Hofkirche. Stimmen stehen gesondert
Zelenka, Giovanni Disma: [Proh, quos criminis. Z 172]<br />
Motetto: Pro Nativitate Domini. Pro[h] quos criminis a Tenore [oder Soprano] Solo [mit Orch.] C-dur. Part u. St. 1 H. m. 21 St. Mus. Mscr. Part. = Orig. Mscr. Katho[l]ische Hofkirche. Stimmen stehen gesondert
Status
Autogr. score of Pro quos criminis by Zelenka (Mus. 2358-E-34) is held by SLUB; 21 parts to accompany the score missing from Dresden.
Identification
ZWV 172
Sort Order
03/13/08
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/4305.