ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Title
ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Description
ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745), [Miserere]: No 2., III/Z/19/2
D-Dl
Mus. 2358-D-504 (olim -D-62)
Composer
ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Uniform Composer
ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745)
Title (Catalogo)
[Miserere]: No 2.
Location (1765)
Schranck III; Fach 19; Lage 2
SFL_combination
III/Z/19/2
Scoring (1765)
‘a 4 Voci con Stro.’
Materials (1765)
Partitura; Parti
Title Partitura
Miserere à 4
Uniform Title
Psalms (ps. 50)
Date (Catalogo)
22 March 1722
RISM Links
Remarks
Bound autogr. score. Restored. Parts are missing.
Autogr. titles on grey-blue cover: Originale (upper left) No: 2 (non autogr.) | Miserere à 4 | C:A:T:B: | Violin 2 Oboe 2 Viole o’ Tromboni 2 | e Basso Contin | à Dresda li 25 Marzo | 1722 | di | Giov: Disma Zelenka.
At the conclusion of the score, in another hand, is written ‘Seq[uitur] Gloria. A score from c1724/5 of a Vespers Doxology (SAT with petite basse written in tenor clef) and Amen fugue (SATB with organ colla voce) is kept as a loose sheets in a pocket at the conclusion of the binding. (Mus. Q 2038) is written in pencil on the final page of this manuscript. Here are also kept: 1. A former cover; 2. A cut out with label (in pencil): Miserere | Zelenka| [...]
A Dresden Diarium Missionis entry, 24 March 1722, reported that Zelenka had been entrusted with the composition of the Lamentations and all other music required for Holy Week. (NB quia Domino Zelenka cura demandata est componendi Lamentationes et reliqua pro sacra hebdomada ...’). On Tuesday of Holy Week (1 April 1722) , it was reported that at about 3.30, Matins, Lamentations and Responses, Benedictus and finally Miserere, settings composed by Zelenka, were to be heard. The Prince and Princess were present throughout Matins, but as the composed works were too long, the Prince had Zelenka shorten the music. (Perhaps this was prompted by the condition of Maria Josepha, who then was in the early stages of pregnancy: Prince Friedrich Christian was born on 5.9.1722). As a result, the Miserere was omitted and it was read. (‘Post meridiem circa dimidiam quartam decantatum Matutinum, Lamentationes et Responsoria Benedictus et ultimum Miserere componente Domino Zelenka. Interfuit et Seren. Princeps et Principessa toti Matutino; quia autem compositio nimis longa fuit, curavit movere Seren. Princeps Dominum Zelenka, ut abbreviaret cantus; unde ultimum Miserere omissum, et more consueto lectum est posterioribus diebus’).
On 8 April 1737, the Jesuit Diarium reported that at 4 o’clock a very long Miserere was produced by Zelenka. (Hora 4 Miserere longissimum productum à D. Zelenka). Was this setting of 1722 heard on that occasion? And if so, did the length cause Zelenka to compose the much more compact setting: ZWV 56? (III/Z/19/1).
See Zelenka-Dokumentation, 109, Dok. 11; 293, ZWV 56. See also Stockigt, ‘After Six Weeks’, 198.
In the ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) score and parts are listed under the heading Miserere No. 1 (III/Z/18/2). Scoring is given as ‘à 4 voci co’ VVni Ob: Vla 2 Tromboni ed Org.’ The incipit has a tremolo sign above the quavers of the first two bars. It is not shown here.
Autogr. titles on grey-blue cover: Originale (upper left) No: 2 (non autogr.) | Miserere à 4 | C:A:T:B: | Violin 2 Oboe 2 Viole o’ Tromboni 2 | e Basso Contin | à Dresda li 25 Marzo | 1722 | di | Giov: Disma Zelenka.
At the conclusion of the score, in another hand, is written ‘Seq[uitur] Gloria. A score from c1724/5 of a Vespers Doxology (SAT with petite basse written in tenor clef) and Amen fugue (SATB with organ colla voce) is kept as a loose sheets in a pocket at the conclusion of the binding. (Mus. Q 2038) is written in pencil on the final page of this manuscript. Here are also kept: 1. A former cover; 2. A cut out with label (in pencil): Miserere | Zelenka| [...]
A Dresden Diarium Missionis entry, 24 March 1722, reported that Zelenka had been entrusted with the composition of the Lamentations and all other music required for Holy Week. (NB quia Domino Zelenka cura demandata est componendi Lamentationes et reliqua pro sacra hebdomada ...’). On Tuesday of Holy Week (1 April 1722) , it was reported that at about 3.30, Matins, Lamentations and Responses, Benedictus and finally Miserere, settings composed by Zelenka, were to be heard. The Prince and Princess were present throughout Matins, but as the composed works were too long, the Prince had Zelenka shorten the music. (Perhaps this was prompted by the condition of Maria Josepha, who then was in the early stages of pregnancy: Prince Friedrich Christian was born on 5.9.1722). As a result, the Miserere was omitted and it was read. (‘Post meridiem circa dimidiam quartam decantatum Matutinum, Lamentationes et Responsoria Benedictus et ultimum Miserere componente Domino Zelenka. Interfuit et Seren. Princeps et Principessa toti Matutino; quia autem compositio nimis longa fuit, curavit movere Seren. Princeps Dominum Zelenka, ut abbreviaret cantus; unde ultimum Miserere omissum, et more consueto lectum est posterioribus diebus’).
On 8 April 1737, the Jesuit Diarium reported that at 4 o’clock a very long Miserere was produced by Zelenka. (Hora 4 Miserere longissimum productum à D. Zelenka). Was this setting of 1722 heard on that occasion? And if so, did the length cause Zelenka to compose the much more compact setting: ZWV 56? (III/Z/19/1).
See Zelenka-Dokumentation, 109, Dok. 11; 293, ZWV 56. See also Stockigt, ‘After Six Weeks’, 198.
In the ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) score and parts are listed under the heading Miserere No. 1 (III/Z/18/2). Scoring is given as ‘à 4 voci co’ VVni Ob: Vla 2 Tromboni ed Org.’ The incipit has a tremolo sign above the quavers of the first two bars. It is not shown here.
Stamps
Sächs. Landes-Bibl.
Eitner
V. 10 (1904), 337: Zelenka, Johann Dismas [...] In Dresde. kath. Kirche [...] Psalmen
SLB Card Catalog
Zelenka, Jan Dismas Mus. 2358-D-504 [Miserere Z 56]<br />
Miserere a C. A. T. B., 2 vl, 2 ob, 2 vle o trb, [trb-B] e bc. ... 1722 [d moll] Partitur = Ms autogr., 1722 1 Bd. (66 S.) u. 1 Heft (S. 67–74) (ehemals unter Mus. 2358-D-62 vorh. Stimmen sind seit 1945 verschollen)
Miserere a C. A. T. B., 2 vl, 2 ob, 2 vle o trb, [trb-B] e bc. ... 1722 [d moll] Partitur = Ms autogr., 1722 1 Bd. (66 S.) u. 1 Heft (S. 67–74) (ehemals unter Mus. 2358-D-62 vorh. Stimmen sind seit 1945 verschollen)
Status
Autogr. score of Miserere (d minor) by Zelenka (Mus. 2358-D-504; olim -D-62) kept by SLUB; parts are missing from Dresden.
Identification
ZWV 56
Sort Order
03/19/02
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/4345.