ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Title
ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Description
ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745), [Missae pro Defunctis]: No 2. [Requiem; Dies irae; Offertorium; Sanctus; Agnus], III/Z/14/2
D-Dl
Missing
Composer
ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Uniform Composer
ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745)
Title (Catalogo)
[Missae pro Defunctis]: No 2. [Requiem; Dies irae; Offertorium; Sanctus; Agnus]
Location (1765)
Schranck III; Fach 14; Lage 2
SFL_combination
III/Z/14/2
Scoring (1765)
‘a 4 voci co’ VVni Viola, Oboè, Flauti, Chalmeux e Trombe’
Materials (1765)
Partitura; Parti
Uniform Title
Requiems
Date (Catalogo)
c1731-1732
Remarks
Zelenka’s Inventarium entry of this work reads: ‘NB: Fuit hoc Requiem factum et productum pro Anniversario Invictiss. Imper. Josephi ad Mandatum Serenissimae Nostrae Principessae’, indicating that the work was commissioned by Maria Josepha before she received the title ‘Queen’ (coronation January 1734). On 17 April 1731, the 20th anniversary of the death of Joseph I, the Dresden Diarium Missionis reported that a Requiem for Emperor Joseph had been produced by Zelenka: ‘Requiem pro Caesare Josepho produxit D. Zelenka.’ The entry of 22 April 1732 recorded that at 11 am a Requiem for Emperor Joseph with music by Zelenka: “ora 11. Requiem pro Imperatore Josepho ... Musicam fecit D. Zelenka.’ In 1739, 1740, and 1741 a Requiem is reported on the anniversaries of the death of Joseph I without mention of the music until 1741, when Hasse was responsible: ‘Anniversarium pro Imperatore Josepho I. Hora 11. Cantatum Requiem ((…….)) D. Hasse.’
In the later ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) score and parts are listed under Missae pro Defunctis: No: 2) Requiem; Dies irae; Offertorium; Sanctus; Agnus (III/Z/14/2). The scoring of the Requiem is given is: ‘à 4 voci co’VVni, Vla, Oboi, Flauti, Chalmeaux ed Org.’; scoring for the Dies irae is given as: ‘à 4 voci co’VVni, Viola, Oboi ed Org.’; scoring of the Offertorium is: ‘à 4 voci co’VVni, Viola, Oboi, ed Org.’; scoring of the Sanctus is: ‘à 4 voci co’VVni, Viola, Oboi ed Org.’; scoring of the Agnus is: ‘à 4 voci co’VVni, Oboi, Viola, ed Org.’
Ferdinand Tadra (1844–1910), historian and organizer of the Prague choral society Hlahol, was probably responsible for arranging the loan from Dresden of Zelenka’s autograph of this d-minor Requiem (ZWV 48). See Kohlhase, ‘Der Dresdener Hofkirchenkomponist’, 177.
The only known 18th c. example of sections from this Requiem (ZWV 48) survives at Bratislava (formerly from the Piarist monastery at Podolínec) as an incomplete set of parts prepared in 1770.
Zelenka-Dokumentation, Dok.59a, 2) 135; 291, ZWV 48.
Concordances:
1. CZ-Prague, Hlahol archive, Sign. 1847. Score copy (1878)
2. SK-J, H-252. Incomplete set of parts (1770). RISM ID no. 570001803. (The ‘Christe eleison’ and ‘Benedictus’ settings differ from the example held by Hlahol).
In the later ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) score and parts are listed under Missae pro Defunctis: No: 2) Requiem; Dies irae; Offertorium; Sanctus; Agnus (III/Z/14/2). The scoring of the Requiem is given is: ‘à 4 voci co’VVni, Vla, Oboi, Flauti, Chalmeaux ed Org.’; scoring for the Dies irae is given as: ‘à 4 voci co’VVni, Viola, Oboi ed Org.’; scoring of the Offertorium is: ‘à 4 voci co’VVni, Viola, Oboi, ed Org.’; scoring of the Sanctus is: ‘à 4 voci co’VVni, Viola, Oboi ed Org.’; scoring of the Agnus is: ‘à 4 voci co’VVni, Oboi, Viola, ed Org.’
Ferdinand Tadra (1844–1910), historian and organizer of the Prague choral society Hlahol, was probably responsible for arranging the loan from Dresden of Zelenka’s autograph of this d-minor Requiem (ZWV 48). See Kohlhase, ‘Der Dresdener Hofkirchenkomponist’, 177.
The only known 18th c. example of sections from this Requiem (ZWV 48) survives at Bratislava (formerly from the Piarist monastery at Podolínec) as an incomplete set of parts prepared in 1770.
Zelenka-Dokumentation, Dok.59a, 2) 135; 291, ZWV 48.
Concordances:
1. CZ-Prague, Hlahol archive, Sign. 1847. Score copy (1878)
2. SK-J, H-252. Incomplete set of parts (1770). RISM ID no. 570001803. (The ‘Christe eleison’ and ‘Benedictus’ settings differ from the example held by Hlahol).
Eitner
V. 10 (1904), 337: Zelenka, Johann Dismas [...] In Dresde. kath. Kirche [...] 3 Requiem
Status
The score and parts of ‘Requiem factum et productum pro Anniversario Invictiss. Imper. Josephi ad Mandatum Serenissimae Nostrae Principessae’ by Zelenka missing from Dresden and not catalogued by SLB.
Identification
ZWV 48
Sort Order
03/14/02
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/4308.