ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Title
ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Description
ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745), Melodramma De S. Wenceslao, III/Z/25/5
D-Dl
Mus. 2358-D-2
Composer
ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Uniform Composer
ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745)
Title (Catalogo)
Melodramma De S. Wenceslao
Location (1765)
Schranck III; Fach 25; Lage 5
SFL_combination
III/Z/25/5
Scoring (1765)
‘a 5 Voci, co’ VVni Vla Oboè, Trombe e Timp.’
Materials (1765)
Partitura
Title Partitura
[Sub olea pacis]
Uniform Title
Melodramas
Date (Catalogo)
1723
RISM Links
Remarks
Bound autogr. score.
Autogr. cover title (light brown paper): MELODRAMA | quod occasione | Gloriosissimae inaugurationis in Regem | CAROLI VI | et In Reginam Bohe= | =miae | ELISAbethae CHRistinae,| quaerente ita Caesareo et Academico Collegio Societatis Jesu| Pragae ad Sanctum Clementem, | in Musicam posuit | et coram | iisdem | Caesareis Regiisque Maiestatibus | et in Summa Veneratione direxit | Augustissimi Poloniarum Regis et Electoris Saxo: | FRIDERICI AUGUSTI | à Camera Musicus Joannes Disma Zelenka Boëmus Launowicensis | A:D:1723.
Dedications: Laus Deo (concl. of score); Vivat Deus (final page of jottings).
NB: the Ouverture/Symphonia is written on different sized sheets from the rest of the score. It has the watermark seen (in part) in the sonatas: ZWV 180.
Composed and directed by Zelenka for performance (and re-performance) at the Clementinum College Prague as part of the coronation celebrations of Emperor Charles VI and Empress Elisabeth Christine as King and Queen of Bohemia, 1723. Zelenka re-used several items from this Melodrama in subsequent works. See, for example, the motets Angelus Domini (ZWV 161; III/Z/13/1), O Magnum Mysterium (ZWV 171; III/Z/13/6), Pro quos criminis (ZWV 172; III/Z/13/8), the Te Deum of 1724 (ZWV 145; III/Z/15/1), and possibly a now-missing Regina coeli (ZWV 131; III/Z/16/12).
On Jesuit documentation and libretti on the Prague performances, see Vojtešková and Stockigt, ‘Zpráve o návštěvě císaře Karla VI. s chotí v Klementinu v roce 1723’, 351–9. The enormous success of the production and complete approval of Charles VI and his consort was reported to Rome in the annual letter from the Clementinum College. See Jan Dismas Zelenka, p. 124. See also Kohlhase, ‘Zelenkas geistliche Parodien’ in ZS II, 419–34, and Zelenka-Dokumentation,114, Dok. 17; 305, ZWV 175.
In the ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) the work is listed without score and parts under Melodramma de S. Wenceslao à 5 voci conc. co’VVni, Viola, Tromb: Timp: ed Org. (III/Z/22/6). A large X accompanies the entry.
Autogr. cover title (light brown paper): MELODRAMA | quod occasione | Gloriosissimae inaugurationis in Regem | CAROLI VI | et In Reginam Bohe= | =miae | ELISAbethae CHRistinae,| quaerente ita Caesareo et Academico Collegio Societatis Jesu| Pragae ad Sanctum Clementem, | in Musicam posuit | et coram | iisdem | Caesareis Regiisque Maiestatibus | et in Summa Veneratione direxit | Augustissimi Poloniarum Regis et Electoris Saxo: | FRIDERICI AUGUSTI | à Camera Musicus Joannes Disma Zelenka Boëmus Launowicensis | A:D:1723.
Dedications: Laus Deo (concl. of score); Vivat Deus (final page of jottings).
NB: the Ouverture/Symphonia is written on different sized sheets from the rest of the score. It has the watermark seen (in part) in the sonatas: ZWV 180.
Composed and directed by Zelenka for performance (and re-performance) at the Clementinum College Prague as part of the coronation celebrations of Emperor Charles VI and Empress Elisabeth Christine as King and Queen of Bohemia, 1723. Zelenka re-used several items from this Melodrama in subsequent works. See, for example, the motets Angelus Domini (ZWV 161; III/Z/13/1), O Magnum Mysterium (ZWV 171; III/Z/13/6), Pro quos criminis (ZWV 172; III/Z/13/8), the Te Deum of 1724 (ZWV 145; III/Z/15/1), and possibly a now-missing Regina coeli (ZWV 131; III/Z/16/12).
On Jesuit documentation and libretti on the Prague performances, see Vojtešková and Stockigt, ‘Zpráve o návštěvě císaře Karla VI. s chotí v Klementinu v roce 1723’, 351–9. The enormous success of the production and complete approval of Charles VI and his consort was reported to Rome in the annual letter from the Clementinum College. See Jan Dismas Zelenka, p. 124. See also Kohlhase, ‘Zelenkas geistliche Parodien’ in ZS II, 419–34, and Zelenka-Dokumentation,114, Dok. 17; 305, ZWV 175.
In the ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) the work is listed without score and parts under Melodramma de S. Wenceslao à 5 voci conc. co’VVni, Viola, Tromb: Timp: ed Org. (III/Z/22/6). A large X accompanies the entry.
Stamps
BIBLIOTHECA MUSICA REGIA; KGL. ÖFFENT. BIBLIOTHEK DRESDEN
Additional
[A 427 Eitner]
Eitner
V. 10 (1904), 337: Zelenka, Johann Dismas [...] Die Kgl. Musikalien-Samlg., in Dresden [...] Ms. A 427 a Melodrama von 1723 Autogr. P.
SLB Card Catalog
Mus. 2358-D-2<br />
Zelenka, Jan Dismas <br />
[Sub olea pacis. Z 175] Melodrama [de Sancto Wenceslao] quod occasione . . . inaugurationis in Regem Caroli VI et in Regina in Bohemiae Elizabethae Christinae . . . in Musicam posuit et . . . direxit . . . Joannes Dismas Zelenka . . . 1723. . . . <br />
Partitur = Ms. autogr. 1723. 1 Vol.[?] 1 Bl. 162 S., 1 Bl. qu 4to
Zelenka, Jan Dismas <br />
[Sub olea pacis. Z 175] Melodrama [de Sancto Wenceslao] quod occasione . . . inaugurationis in Regem Caroli VI et in Regina in Bohemiae Elizabethae Christinae . . . in Musicam posuit et . . . direxit . . . Joannes Dismas Zelenka . . . 1723. . . . <br />
Partitur = Ms. autogr. 1723. 1 Vol.[?] 1 Bl. 162 S., 1 Bl. qu 4to
Status
Score of Melodrama ‘Sub olea pacis’ (Mus. 2358-D-2) held by SLUB.
Identification
ZWV 175
Sort Order
03/25/05
Collection
Citation
“ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.,” Catalogue of the Music Collection of the Dresden Catholic Court Church 1765, accessed January 13, 2026, http://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/hofkirchecatalogo1765/items/show/4376.