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''GLORIA''

Andrea Ihle, sopran; Brigitte Pfretzschner, Alto; Ekkehard Wagner, tenor; Matthias Henneberg, bass

Staatskapelle Dresden, Dresdner Kathedralchor and Dresdner Kapellknaben. Konrad Wagner, conductor.

''The Missa...'' was composed by Zelenka in 1728 during the time he substituted for the ill court musical director Heinichen. The premiere most likely took place on New Year's Day 1729. Until the reform of the Second Vatican Council, the Feast of the Circumcision was celebrated on this day, which is at the same time the Octave of Christmas.

Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679 -- 1745), baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka and previously also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka, was the most important Czech Baroque composer, whose music is admired for its harmonic invention and counterpoint. Johann Sebastian Bach held Zelenka in high esteem, as evidenced by a letter from Bach's son C. P. E. Bach to Johann Nikolaus Forkel, of 13 January 1775, and Zelenka was a guest at Bach's home in Leipzig. Bach had some of his works copied: e.g. he instructed his son, Wilhelm Friedemann, to copy the Amen from Zelenka's third Magnificat (ZWV 108) for use in Leipzig at St.Thomas's church.

Zelenka died of dropsy in Dresden on December 23, 1745 and was buried on Christmas Eve. In his final years, he wrote works that were never performed during his lifetime. He never married and had no children; his compositions and musical estate were purchased from his beneficiaries by the Electress of Saxony, Maria Josepha of Austria and after his death were closely guarded (in contrast to his treatment when he was alive) and regarded as the court's possessions. Telemann, together with Pisendel, tried unsuccessfully to publish Zelenka's "Responsoria". He wrote on the 17th of April 1756, with undisguised contempt, that "the complete manuscript will be at the Dresden court, kept under lock and key as something very rare...".