ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Title
ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Description
ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745), [Oratoria]: No 3. Giesù al Calvario, III/Z/25/1
D-Dl
Mus. 2358-D-1a; Mus. 2358-D-1b
Composer
ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Uniform Composer
ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745)
Title (Catalogo)
[Oratoria]: No 3. Giesù al Calvario
Location (1765)
Schranck III; Fach 25; Lage 1
SFL_combination
III/Z/25/1
Scoring (1765)
‘a 5 Voci co’ VVni Vla Oboè e Flauti’
Materials (1765)
Partitura; Parti
Title Partitura
Giesu al Calvario
Uniform Title
Oratorios
Date (Catalogo)
1735
Remarks
Mus. 2358-D-1a: Bound autogr. score. Cover title (autogr.?) Giesu al Calvario.
Title page (non-autogr.): Gesu al Calvario | Componimento sacro | la Poesia è di Cavagliere Boccardi. | Musica è di Giovanni Disma Zelenka | Compositore di S.M. il Rè di Pol. | Elettore di Sassonia.
Reverse (non-autogr.): Interlocutori | Gesu. | Mar. Vergine Santissima | Mar. Cleofe. | Mar. Maddallena | S. Giovanni. Concl. of score: IesV ChrIsto propter InIqVItates OrbIs passo posVIt, obtVLItqVe Ioannes DIsMas ZeLenka (= 1735).
Mus. 2358-D-1b: Set of 30 parts (mainly non-autogr.) with blue-grey wrappers in the hands of four copyists for: S: Maria Virgine (Soprano: ‘S. Venturini’); S: Maria Maddalena (Soprano: ‘S. G. Bindi’); A: Maria Cleofe (Alto: ‘S. Campioli’); A: Gesù (Alto: ‘S. Nicolini’); A: Giovanni (Alto: ‘S. Annibali’); S: ‘Ripieni per i Cori’; A: ‘Ripieni per i Cori’; T (2x): ‘Ripieni per i Cori’; B (2x): ‘Ripieni per i Cori’; vn 1 (x 3: ‘Monsr Pisendel’ on vn 1); vn 2 (x 3); violetta (x 2); vc; violone; tiorba; cembalo; fl 1, 2; ob 1 (two players: chalumeau insert in this part), 2; fagotti 1, 2.
These parts are discussed by Stockigt in ‘Zelenka and the Dresden Court Orchestra 1735 – a Study’.
Draft (?) autogr. dedication kept with the parts (Mus. D-1b): Gesù al Calvario Componimento Sacro. Posto in Musica ed Alle Loro Sacre Reali Maesta di Federico Augusto Terzo, Rè di Polonia etc., Elett. di Sasson: etc. e Maria Gioseppa Regina di Polonia etc. Elettrice di Sass: etc. Coll’occasione del felicissimo Nadalizio della sacra Medesima Sacra Maestà Real, humillissimamente consagrato da Giovanni Disma Zelenka [deleted] Zelenka (title page). On the reverse of this sheet is the draft autogr. of Zelenka’s Avertimento (see above, -D-1).
In 1735 Zelenka’s oratorio Gesù al Calvario (ZWV 62) was performed in Dresden’s Hofkirche. (Fürstenau, II, 41, claimed that it was written in 1731). Composed in two parts, Zelenka’s remarks on the score of this work state that this oratorio was to be heard over Good Friday and Holy Saturday (7–8 April in 1735). The journal of the 15-year-old Saxon Electoral Prince Friedrich Christian, however, gives different information. He claimed that on Good Friday 1735 he heard Gesù al Calvario (which took 2 hours, that is, approximately the time required for a performance), whereas on Holy Saturday Zelenka’s earlier oratorio Il Serpente del bronzo was performed – a work Friedrich Christian claimed he also had heard in the previous year. See Remarks under III/Z/24/2.
Le. 8.e Avril [1735].
Il y eut à 8. heures un Oratoire fort beau de la Composition de Selenca intitulé Giesu al Calvario[.] Je mi trouvai avec mes Chers Freres, et Soeurs, et M.e la Psse de Weissenfels. L’Oratoire dura au de là de deux heures.186
Translation:
8 April [Good Friday 1735]
At 8 o’clock there was a very beautiful oratorio composed by Zelenka with the title of Giesù al Calvario[.] I attended it with my dear brothers and sisters, together with Madam the Princess of Weissenfels. The oratorio lasted over two hours. See Stockigt, Ágústsson , ‘Reflections and Recent Findings’, Clavibus unitis 4, p. 33.
In the incomplete catalogue of Maria Josepha the libretto (text by Chevalier Boccardi) is listed on p. 25 (recent pagination).
Mus. 2358-D-1 is the non-autograph dedication copy of c1735. Stamp of the Bibliotheca Musica Regia. This copy was listed in royal music catalogues.(See Eitner).
In the ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) score and parts are listed under Oratoria No: 3) Giesù al Calvario (III/Z/22/2). See Zelenka-Dokumentation, 142, Dok. 65. On Zelenka’s oratorios see Susanne Oschmann, Zelenka: Seine geistlichen italienischen.
Title page (non-autogr.): Gesu al Calvario | Componimento sacro | la Poesia è di Cavagliere Boccardi. | Musica è di Giovanni Disma Zelenka | Compositore di S.M. il Rè di Pol. | Elettore di Sassonia.
Reverse (non-autogr.): Interlocutori | Gesu. | Mar. Vergine Santissima | Mar. Cleofe. | Mar. Maddallena | S. Giovanni. Concl. of score: IesV ChrIsto propter InIqVItates OrbIs passo posVIt, obtVLItqVe Ioannes DIsMas ZeLenka (= 1735).
Mus. 2358-D-1b: Set of 30 parts (mainly non-autogr.) with blue-grey wrappers in the hands of four copyists for: S: Maria Virgine (Soprano: ‘S. Venturini’); S: Maria Maddalena (Soprano: ‘S. G. Bindi’); A: Maria Cleofe (Alto: ‘S. Campioli’); A: Gesù (Alto: ‘S. Nicolini’); A: Giovanni (Alto: ‘S. Annibali’); S: ‘Ripieni per i Cori’; A: ‘Ripieni per i Cori’; T (2x): ‘Ripieni per i Cori’; B (2x): ‘Ripieni per i Cori’; vn 1 (x 3: ‘Monsr Pisendel’ on vn 1); vn 2 (x 3); violetta (x 2); vc; violone; tiorba; cembalo; fl 1, 2; ob 1 (two players: chalumeau insert in this part), 2; fagotti 1, 2.
These parts are discussed by Stockigt in ‘Zelenka and the Dresden Court Orchestra 1735 – a Study’.
Draft (?) autogr. dedication kept with the parts (Mus. D-1b): Gesù al Calvario Componimento Sacro. Posto in Musica ed Alle Loro Sacre Reali Maesta di Federico Augusto Terzo, Rè di Polonia etc., Elett. di Sasson: etc. e Maria Gioseppa Regina di Polonia etc. Elettrice di Sass: etc. Coll’occasione del felicissimo Nadalizio della sacra Medesima Sacra Maestà Real, humillissimamente consagrato da Giovanni Disma Zelenka [deleted] Zelenka (title page). On the reverse of this sheet is the draft autogr. of Zelenka’s Avertimento (see above, -D-1).
In 1735 Zelenka’s oratorio Gesù al Calvario (ZWV 62) was performed in Dresden’s Hofkirche. (Fürstenau, II, 41, claimed that it was written in 1731). Composed in two parts, Zelenka’s remarks on the score of this work state that this oratorio was to be heard over Good Friday and Holy Saturday (7–8 April in 1735). The journal of the 15-year-old Saxon Electoral Prince Friedrich Christian, however, gives different information. He claimed that on Good Friday 1735 he heard Gesù al Calvario (which took 2 hours, that is, approximately the time required for a performance), whereas on Holy Saturday Zelenka’s earlier oratorio Il Serpente del bronzo was performed – a work Friedrich Christian claimed he also had heard in the previous year. See Remarks under III/Z/24/2.
Le. 8.e Avril [1735].
Il y eut à 8. heures un Oratoire fort beau de la Composition de Selenca intitulé Giesu al Calvario[.] Je mi trouvai avec mes Chers Freres, et Soeurs, et M.e la Psse de Weissenfels. L’Oratoire dura au de là de deux heures.186
Translation:
8 April [Good Friday 1735]
At 8 o’clock there was a very beautiful oratorio composed by Zelenka with the title of Giesù al Calvario[.] I attended it with my dear brothers and sisters, together with Madam the Princess of Weissenfels. The oratorio lasted over two hours. See Stockigt, Ágústsson , ‘Reflections and Recent Findings’, Clavibus unitis 4, p. 33.
In the incomplete catalogue of Maria Josepha the libretto (text by Chevalier Boccardi) is listed on p. 25 (recent pagination).
Mus. 2358-D-1 is the non-autograph dedication copy of c1735. Stamp of the Bibliotheca Musica Regia. This copy was listed in royal music catalogues.(See Eitner).
In the ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) score and parts are listed under Oratoria No: 3) Giesù al Calvario (III/Z/22/2). See Zelenka-Dokumentation, 142, Dok. 65. On Zelenka’s oratorios see Susanne Oschmann, Zelenka: Seine geistlichen italienischen.
Stamps
Sächs. Landesbibliothek. Depositum der Kath. Hofkirche
Additional
[A 427 Eitner]
Eitner
V. 10 (1904), 337: Zelenka, Johann Dismas [...] In Dresde. kath. Kirche [...] 3 Oratorien [...] 3. Giesu al Calvario; Die Kgl. Musikalien-Samlg., in Dresden [...] Ms. A 427, Oratorio, Jesu al Calvario. P.
SLB Card Catalog
Mus. 2358-D-1: Zelenka, [Joh. Dis.]: [Gesù al Calvario. Orat.] [Avertimento v. d. Comp. Hand.] [Alte Copie] [Z 62] Part. 187 S. quer- 4to Mus.-Mscr. gut erh <br />
Mus. 2358-D-1a: (Aut. 200 ) Zelenka, Giovanni Disma: Oratorio Gesù al Calvario a 5 voci [m. Orch.] La Poesia è di Cavagliere Boccardi. {Z 62] C-moll. Part. u. St. (1735) 1 Bd mit 24 St. quer-8vo u. 4to [Stimmen fehlen] Sonderausfstellung. Mus.-Mscr. Part.: Orig. Mscr. Kath. Hofkirche<br />
Mus. 2358-D-1b. Zelenka, Giovanni Dismas Gesù al Calvario. Componimento Sacro. [Z 62] Mss. ca. 1735 [Dresden]. 29 30 Stimmen: (See Remarks). Dazu 1 autogr. Titelbl. qu 8o. Vormals a) Kath. Hofkirche; b) 2358-D-1a
Mus. 2358-D-1a: (Aut. 200 ) Zelenka, Giovanni Disma: Oratorio Gesù al Calvario a 5 voci [m. Orch.] La Poesia è di Cavagliere Boccardi. {Z 62] C-moll. Part. u. St. (1735) 1 Bd mit 24 St. quer-8vo u. 4to [Stimmen fehlen] Sonderausfstellung. Mus.-Mscr. Part.: Orig. Mscr. Kath. Hofkirche<br />
Mus. 2358-D-1b. Zelenka, Giovanni Dismas Gesù al Calvario. Componimento Sacro. [Z 62] Mss. ca. 1735 [Dresden]. 29 30 Stimmen: (See Remarks). Dazu 1 autogr. Titelbl. qu 8o. Vormals a) Kath. Hofkirche; b) 2358-D-1a
Status
Autogr. score plus 30 parts to Giesu [or Gesù] al Calvario by Jan Dismas Zelenka kept by SLUB (Mus. 2358-D-1a; -D-1b). Non-autogr. dedication score copy also held (Mus. 2358-D-1).
Identification
ZWV 62
Sort Order
03/25/01
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/4372.