Zelenka - Requiem in D Minor, ZWV 48 {Urtext score}

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The score / sheet music of Jan Dismas Zelenka's lesser known of three requiem settings, the requiem in d-moll /Z. 48/, composed on the anniversary of the death of the Emperor Joseph I /who died on April 17th, 1711/, was also commissioned by Maria Josepha. In the inventory to this Zelenka has the following comment: NB: Fuit hoc Requiem factum et productum pro Anniversario Invictiss. Imper. Josepho ad Mandatum Serenissimae Nostrae Principessae.
Because Zelenka addressed Maria Josepha as Principessa /Princess/ and not as Electrix /Electress/, one can place the writing of this composition between 1722 and 1733, when this was her title. The year 1721 does not come into consideration because figural church services in the court church began only after the anniversary of the day of the emperor's death. Johann David Heinichen's requiem of 1726 in E-Flat Major, /S. 18/, suggests that a memorial service was probably held every year.

In view of the fact that the requiem in d-moll was dedicated to the memory of Emperor Joseph I, Zelenka changed the text from „Dona eis requiem“ to the singular form „ei“. He did the same later, in his big requiem in D Major /Z. 46/. There are two quite independent sources of the requiem in d-moll, the first is a copy of the score housed in the archives of the Prague Hlahol /call number 1847/, made in January 1878 from Zelenka's manuscript borrowed from Dresden and brought to Prague. In view of the fact that the whereabouts of the original is unknown today, the copy in the Prague Hlahol /henceforth H/ is an important source of the composition whose existence confirms mention of it in Zelenka's inventory - started at the beginning of 1726, and the catalogue containing incipits of the individual parts.
The calligraphic copy H bears the title: Requiem, Sanctus, Agnus a 4 Violini 2, Oboe 2, Flauti 2, Chalumaeux, Fagotti 2, Basso Continuo. Quod occasione Animadversarii /anniversarii/ pro Invictissimo Imperatore JOSEPHO Domino suo Clementissimo composuit et in summa veneratione ad Mandatum Serenissimae /Principessae/ ac Do /mi/ nae suae in Regio-Catholica Dresdae Capella produxit humillissimus de victissimus /devotissimus/ Sub- ditus et Servus Joannes Dismas Zelenka.
In the upper left hand corner of the first page of the score are the words Requiem à 4; in the right hand corner Joannes Dismas Zelenka and under this /à Dresda 7. Aprile/. The other parts of the composition have the following names in the copy and are written in this order: Requiem, Sanctus; Benedictus; Agnus Dei; Dies Irae; Domine Jesu Christe. Imprecise name parts of the proprium are given here according to the official form of the mass for the dead such as Introitus, Sequence and Offertorium. The last four bars with added choral intonation have no inscription, but they are communion set to music. Copy H contains many mistakes, some of which cannot be corrected without major intervention.
The second important source is a copy of the voices made in the Autumn of 1770. It comes from the former Piarist collection of Svätý Jur /St. Georg; today Jur pri Bratislave/ and is housed in the State District archives of Bratislava-Vidiek, with headquarters in Modrá /call number H-252, henceforth M/. The set of voices is in a modern cover on which the composer is indicated by the initials N.N. and is incomplete. The parts of both violas, the third trombone, both bassoons and chalumeau are missing. Despite being incomplete, source M provides much valuable information.

I: Introitus (Chorus) - 00:00
II: Te decet hymnus (Hymn, Chorus) - 3:49
III: Christe eleison (Soprano, Bass) - 5:48
IV: Kyrie (Chorus, Fugue) - 8:27
V: Sequentia: Dies irae (Chorus) - 10:06
VI: Quantus tremor est futurus (Soprano, Tenor, Bass) - 11:20
VII: Judex ergo cum sedebit (Tenor, Bass) - 19:39
VIII: Lacrimosa dies illa (Chorus) - 21:47
IX: Huic ergo parce, Deus - (Chorus, Fugue) 22:42
X: Offertorium (Hymn, Chorus) - 24:12
XI: Quam olim Abrahæ promisisti I (Chorus, Fugue) - 27:10
XII: Hostias et preces tibi, Domine (Hymn, Chorus) - 27:49
XIII: Quam olim Abrahæ promisisti II (Chorus, Fugue) - 29:11
XIV: Sanctus I (Chorus) - 29:51
XV: Sanctus II (Chorus, Fughetta) 30:28
XVI: Benedictus, Ossana in excelsis (Chorus, Fugue) - 32:26
XVII: Agnus Dei (Chorus) - 35:52
XVIII: Communio (Hymn, Chorus) - 37:40
XIX: Lux aeterna (Chorus) - 38:16

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