ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.

ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.

ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745), Miserere: No 1., III/Z/19/1

Mus. 2358-D-62; -D-62a

ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.

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

Miserere: No 1.

Schranck III; Fach 19; Lage 1

III/Z/19/1

‘a 4 Voci co’ VVni Viola e 2 Tromboni’

Partitura; Parti

Miserere

Psalms (ps. 50)

1738

Mus. 2358-D-62:
Bound autogr. score. The new cover bears the old cut-out label, on which is written in pencil: 18. Fach 2 .Lage (ie,a different position than that given in the catalogue of c1784) | Miserere | a | Zelenka | 1738 | Kammer 2,2. On the inside cover: Schubert [?] | 1815 | tempore belli (time of war).
A catalogue entry, upper left on the title page (hand of Schürer?): Schranck No. 3 | Z. 19 | Fach 1 Lage | con parti cav. | Zelenka. Incipit .
The autogr. cover title: No: 1 (non autogr.) | Miserere | à 4 | Violin 2 | Oboe 2 | Viola | e | Basso Continuo | G D Z.
This score includes the soprano aria: Gloria Patri.
Dedications: I N J C (head of score); A M D G J C P G B V M OO SS H AA P I R (concl. score)
Mus. 2358-D-62a: Folders of sets of parts from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Folder 1 (the earliest set: 3 scribes): 19 instrumental parts (no Organo): Violino Primo (M: P: in upper left corner); Violino Primo; Violino Secundo; Violino Secundo; Violino 2do; Violetta; Fagotto; Violino Primo; Violino Secundo; Violetta; Violone Rip:; Violone Rip:; Oboe Imo (both oboe parts used for later performances have the original repeated semiquavers with tremolo sign altered to the pattern of dotted quaver and semiquaver); Oboe IIdo; Fagotto; Fagotto; Violino Imo; Violino IIdo; Violoncello.
Folder 2 (the earliest set: 2 scribes from Zelenka’s circle): Soprano (includes Gloria Patri aria); Alto; Tenore; Basso; Canto Rip:; Alto Rip:; Tenore Ripieno; Basso Rip: Soprano R.; Conteralto R.; Basso R.
The second and penultimate movements of this setting are a parody on Altro Ricercar of the Messa della Apostoli from Girolamo Frescobaldi’s Fiori Musicali.
On 18 March 1738 (In Vigilia S. Josephi Sponsi BMV) the Dresden Diarium Missionis reported that at 4 o’clock the Lauretanian Litanies should have been performed but as Zelenka had not brought them, he produces a Miserere instead. (‘Hora 4. debebant esse Litaniae Lauretanae, interim D. Zelenka eas? secum non habens produxit Miserere’). In the previous year on 6 April it was reported that Zelenka had performed a very long Miserere (‘Hora 4 Miserere longissimum productum à D. Zelenka’).
See Zelenka-Dokumentation, 145–6, Dok. 69; 293, ZWV 57. Also eds. M. Hutzel, Th. Kohlhase in EdM 108.
In the ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) score and parts are listed under the heading Miserere No. 1 (III/Z/18/1).
Concordances:
Copies kept in Naples (I-Nc, 19th c.? without the solo aria Gloria Patri) and Berlin (D-B, ‘Aus Dreissigs Nachlaß‘).

Sächs. Landesbibliothek. Depositum der Kath. Hofkirche

V. 10 (1904), 337: Zelenka, Johann Dismas [...] In Dresde. kath. Kirche [...] Psalmen

(Aut. 232) 1) Mus. 2358-D-62; 2) Mus. 2358-D-62a<br />
Zelenka, Giovanni Disma: [Miserere. Z. 57]<br />
Miserere No 1 a 4 voci [mit Orchester]<br />
1) c moll. Part. Dresda 1738. 1 Bd quer-4to Orig.-Mus.-Mscr. Kath. Hofkirche<br />
2) 29 Stimmen = Ms.Dresden ??? 1738

Autogr. score of Miserere (c minor) by Zelenka (Mus. 2358-D-62) kept by SLUB; the earliest parts (19 instrumental and 11 vocal) are among the relatively few examples of performance materials kept in SLUB today (Mus. 2358-D-62a).

ZWV 57

03/19/01