Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) was a Czech baroque composer, whose music wa… Read Full Bio ↴Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) was a Czech baroque composer, whose music was adventurous and noted for its great harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint.
Zelenka was born in 1679 in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, Czechia, and received his early musical training from his father who was a schoolmaster and organist in Louňovice pod Blaníkem. It is thought that his early formal training was at a Jesuit college. After working in the service of Baron Hartig, imperial governor of Prague, Zelenka moved in 1710 to Dresden where he played the violone (double-bass viol) in the court orchestra. His musical studies continued in Vienna and Venice between 1715 and 1716. He returned to Dresden around 1719 as assistant to Kappelmeister Johann David Heinichen. Despite taking on many of the Kappelmeister's duties during Heinichen's years of ill health and eventual death, Zelenka was denied the prestigious post he aspired to. He spent his last ten years in the lesser post of "church music composer" at the court, dying in Dresden in 1745. Many of his surviving manuscripts are for sacred works.
Zelenka was born in 1679 in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, Czechia, and received his early musical training from his father who was a schoolmaster and organist in Louňovice pod Blaníkem. It is thought that his early formal training was at a Jesuit college. After working in the service of Baron Hartig, imperial governor of Prague, Zelenka moved in 1710 to Dresden where he played the violone (double-bass viol) in the court orchestra. His musical studies continued in Vienna and Venice between 1715 and 1716. He returned to Dresden around 1719 as assistant to Kappelmeister Johann David Heinichen. Despite taking on many of the Kappelmeister's duties during Heinichen's years of ill health and eventual death, Zelenka was denied the prestigious post he aspired to. He spent his last ten years in the lesser post of "church music composer" at the court, dying in Dresden in 1745. Many of his surviving manuscripts are for sacred works.
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Votiva in E minor ZWV 18: Sanctus: Benedictus
Jan Dismas Zelenka Lyrics
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@donpratt1732
1. Kyrie
2. Christe eleison 🙏🏻🖤 04:32 09.33 🖤🙏🏻
3. Kyrie 2
4. Kyrie 3
5. Gloria
6. Gratias agimus tibi
7. Qui tollis 🙏🏻🖤 18:31 23.02 🖤🙏🏻 (sadly, unwatchable; such a poor print)
8. Qui sedes
9. Quoniam to solus sanctus
10. Cum Sancto Spiritu 1
11. Cum Sancto Spiritu 2
12. Credo
13. Et incarnatus est
14. Crucifixus
15. Et resurrexit
16. Sanctus
17. Benedictus
18. Osanna in excelsis
19. Agnus Dei
20. Dona nobis pacem
@eugeniosanguineti3947
Di Vertiginosa incantazione.
@riccardoconte9060
Queste messe di Zelenka sono stupefacenti e meravigliose e il Collegium 1704 le esegue magnificamente.
@douglehrer4385
This was my introduction to Zelenka's music about 10 years ago. I was hooked immediately and since have bought about 40 CDs of his music!
@roberthoffmann3551
Thank you for uploading this PEARL in a good quality.
For those who don't know:
Zelenka wrote this mass as a piece of thanksgiving to God for his recovery from a serious illness.
And this wonderful music will always lift up your soul whenever you are feeling down.
And sorry for sounding overclever but it is good to know about this Czech maestro that while the protestant Bach - who is of course unsurpassable in a sense - is the everlasting bard of pain, sorrow, tragedy, Zelenka (Dismas-the penitent thief on Jesus's right side) is the everlasting bard and apostle of hope. He was the most genuine figure of the counterrefromation. Few people know what a great composer he was standing right next to Bach. Blessed are those who know his music.
@marionlouise8914
Bach also offers much comfort, hope and joy. Not only sadness and pain. That doesn't do him right! He admired Zelenka I read.
A great mass indeed, but Bach also wrote great masses. One must respect them both.
@jalapablocrypto
Bach could be just as exuberant in transmitting joy as he could with plunging you into the depths of sorrow. And Zelenka could do the same. Have you heard the latter's Lamentations?
@alexandertagantsev5448
Great!
@heinretter3608
ZELENKA ist es wert, in Erinnerung behalten zu werden, wie dies hier geschieht. Welche Vielfalt des musikalischen Ausdrucks und welche Frisches, welches Engagement des Collegiums 1704 bei der Wiedergabe des Werks.
@linoramos6909
Maravilhoso!
@lauterunvollkommenheit4344
Fabulous.