ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Title
ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Description
ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745), [4 Capricis]: No 3., III/Z/26/5
D-Dl
Mus. 2358-N-5
Composer
ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.
Uniform Composer
ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745)
Title (Catalogo)
[4 Capricis]: No 3.
Location (1765)
Schranck III; Fach 26; Lage 5
SFL_combination
III/Z/26/5
Scoring (1765)
‘a 2 Vni Vla Oboè, Flauti, Corni e Fagotti’
Materials (1765)
Partitura
Title Partitura
Caprice
Uniform Title
Capriccios
RISM Links
Remarks
Four Caprici were composed in Vienna 1717–1718 for entertainments hosted by Saxon Electoral Prince Friedrich August during his courtship of Habsburg Archduchess Maria Josepha.
Bound autogr. score. Unfigured. No original cover with title.
Head of score (caption): I:N:J:C: (centre). In pencil: Cx 1153a.
Wrapper with label to correspond with the relocation to Schrank II:
Schranck No. II | Lit. 28. Fach 8. Lage | No. 4.) Caprice | co’ WWni Fla: Cor: Fag: Vla. Basso | Partitura sola | del Sigr Zelencka.
The original horn players of Zelenka’a Capriccios were almost certainly the young Tobias Butz and Johann Joseph Götzel who were in Vienna when the Saxon Electoral Prince Friedrich August II was living there (1717–1719). See Herbert Seifert in ‘Zelenka in Wien’, 187, n. 30.
Unlisted in the ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) due to relocation to Schrank II.
Zelenka-Dokumentation, 307, ZWV 184; Also see Schranck No: II. Das erhaltene Instrumentalmusikrepertoire, 152, where the number is given as Cx 1152.
Bound autogr. score. Unfigured. No original cover with title.
Head of score (caption): I:N:J:C: (centre). In pencil: Cx 1153a.
Wrapper with label to correspond with the relocation to Schrank II:
Schranck No. II | Lit. 28. Fach 8. Lage | No. 4.) Caprice | co’ WWni Fla: Cor: Fag: Vla. Basso | Partitura sola | del Sigr Zelencka.
The original horn players of Zelenka’a Capriccios were almost certainly the young Tobias Butz and Johann Joseph Götzel who were in Vienna when the Saxon Electoral Prince Friedrich August II was living there (1717–1719). See Herbert Seifert in ‘Zelenka in Wien’, 187, n. 30.
Unlisted in the ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa’ (c1784) due to relocation to Schrank II.
Zelenka-Dokumentation, 307, ZWV 184; Also see Schranck No: II. Das erhaltene Instrumentalmusikrepertoire, 152, where the number is given as Cx 1152.
Stamps
Sächs. Landes.-Bibl.
Additional
Cx 1153a
Eitner
V. 10 (1904), 338: Zelenka, Johann Dismas [...] In Dresd. Mus. [...] 6 Concerti a Violini Va. Oboi e B. [!!!] Part. u. Stb. Ms. Cx 1148-1153.
SLB Card Catalog
(Aut. 171i) Mus. 2358-N-5<br />
Zelenka, [Johann Dismas]: [Capriccio Z 184]<br />
Caprice No 4 co [2] V[ioli]ni, [2] Oboi, Flauto, Cornio, Fag[otto], V[io]la e Basso. F-dur. Part.<br />
11 Bl. quer-4to. Orig. -Mus. -Mscr.
Zelenka, [Johann Dismas]: [Capriccio Z 184]<br />
Caprice No 4 co [2] V[ioli]ni, [2] Oboi, Flauto, Cornio, Fag[otto], V[io]la e Basso. F-dur. Part.<br />
11 Bl. quer-4to. Orig. -Mus. -Mscr.
Status
Autogr. score of Capriccio Nr. 3 by Zelenka (Mus. 2358-N-5) held by SLUB.
Identification
ZWV 184
Sort Order
03/26/05
Collection
Citation
“ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.,” Catalogue of the Music Collection of the Dresden Catholic Court Church 1765, accessed January 17, 2026, http://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/hofkirchecatalogo1765/items/show/4385.