ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.

ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.

ZELENKA, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas (b Louňovice pod Blaníkem 1679–d Dresden 1745), Messe: No 1. Purificationis, III/Z/6/1

Mus. 2358-D-22

ZELENKA, Gio. Dis.

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

Messe: No 1. Purificationis

Schranck III; Fach 6; Lage 1

III/Z/6/1

‘a 4 voci co’ VVni Viola, 4 Trombe e Timpani ’

Partitur; Parti [x 2 for the Kyrie]

Missa Purificationis B. V. M.

Masses

14 August 1733 [completed]

Bound part-autogr. score of a Missa tota. Parts are missing.
Cover title : # 44 (upper right, autogr.) | Schranck No: III | Z. 6. Fach 1. Lage | No: 1. Messa Purificationis à 4 voci | co’ VVni Viola Organo Flauti 4 Trombe e Timpani. | Incipit.
Title page: Kyrie ex Missa | Purificationis B: V: M: | Quam occasione finiti feliciter | cum Gratia Dei Puerperii Serenis- | simae Dominae Nostrae Electris | cum S: Principe Carolo, posuit | J: D: Z:.
Caption title/dedication: I: N: J: C. The lack of the usual dedication formula suggests that the score of this mass was dedicated to Maria Josepha (that is, it was not composed to a commission of the court).
Title page to Gloria (non-autogr.): Gloria ex Missa | Purifcationis B.V.M.
Title page to Credo: # 44 (upper right) | Credo ex Missa | Purificationis B.V.M. | J.D.Z.
Title page to Sanctus: # 44 (upper right) | Sanctus ex Missa | Purificationis B.V.M. | di | G.D.Z.
Concl. of score (autogr.): A: 1733 inchoata est Messa praesens 14 Aug: et finita cum Gratia Divina quamvis aegrotassem 23. ejusdem. (In the year 1733. The present Mass was begun on 14 August and although I was ill, [it] was finished by Divine Grace on the 23rd of the same.) Facs. of Zelenka’s note is reproduced by Stockigt in Jan Dismas Zelenka, ch. 6, Pl. 4.
In the later ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa ...’ (c1784) both score and parts are listed for Missa: No: 1) Missa Purificationis (III/Z/7/12). Two sets of parts are listed for the Kyrie (‘Kyrie in duplo’).
See Zelenka-Dokumentation, 139, Nr. 61; 287, ZWV 16.
On the occasion for which this mass was written see Horn (Hkm, 90) where it is proposed that Missa Purificationis B:V:M: was composed for the churching ceremony (Kirchgang, not the birth as RISM suggests) held six weeks after the birth of Saxon Prince Karl (b 13.7.1733). On masses composed by Zelenka for Maria Josepha’s churching ceremonies see Stockigt, ‘After Six Weeks’, Table 10.2.
Zelenka’s two mass settings written in 1733, Missa Purificationis B.M.V. (ZWV 16) and Missa Eucharistica (ZWV 17), both scored with trumpets and horns, are the last solemnly-set masses to be composed by Zelenka.
Perhaps this is the mass entered into the Breitkopf non-thematic catalogue (Ostermesse 1769) on page 17 as ‘Zelencka, Joh. Dism. Comp. Reg. Pol. El. Sax. Cap. Mag. Missa Kyrie cum Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Osanna, & Agnus à [illegible] Clar. Tymp. 2 Oboi, 2 Flauti, 2 Violini, Viola, 2 Sopr. Alt. Ten. Bass e Fondamento. P. 5 thl. St. 5 thl. 8 gl.’.
Concordance: The incipit in the Catalog 1765 agrees with a Missa integra (Missae Dominicales) listing in the Osek Inventory, 1754, ‘sub littera D fol. 20r, No. 25’ in D, by Zelenka.

Sächs. Landes-Bibl.

V. 10 (1904), 337–8: Zelenka, Johann Dismas [...] Die kathol. Kirche in Dresden besitzt einen grossen Spind, der seinen Namen trägt gefüllt mit Kompositionen von ihm, meistens im Autograph. Es sind vorhanden 21 vollständige Messen, alle in P. u. Stb

(Aut. 209) Mus. 2358-D-22<br />
Zelenka, Giovanni Disma: [Messen. Z 16]<br />
Messa Purificationis Beatae Mariae Virginis a 4 voci [mit Orch.] D dur Part. u. St. 1733 <br />
1 Bd m. 64 (je 32) St. 4to Mus.-Mscr. Part. = Orig. Ms. Part. v. Kyrie-doppelt. [Abschrift der Kyrie. Part. [...] Stimmen] = o Kath. Hofkirche Stimmen stehen gesondert

Part-autogr. score of Missa Purificationis by Zelenka (Mus. 2358-D-22) held by SLUB; 32 parts of the complete mass plus additional 32 parts for the Kyrie are missing from Dresden.

ZWV 16

03/06/01