Zelenka - Chvalte Boha silného, ZWV 165 {Urtext score.}

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The score / sheet music to Jan Dismas Zelenka's only surviving work in Czech: the sacred motet "Chvalte Boha silného", /Z. 165/ translated roughly as "Praise God in his Sanctuary". Performed by the Czech Philharmonic with the mighty Bass Karl Průša.
Zelenka's motet Chvalte Boha silného /Praise the Strong God/ for solo bass and orchestra based on the Czech text of the 150th psalm as translated in the Kralice Bible is an exceptionally rare musical monument. It is, probably, according to Zelenka scholar Jaroslav Smolka, one of those autographs of the composer's works, which remained deposited until the beginning of 1945 in the choir of Dresden Catholic cathedral, among the contents of a cabinet mentioned at the close of the 19th century in Eitner's lexicon.
During a big air raid on the town the cathedral received a direct hit and the cabinet containing the autograph was burned. However, at least two score copies of Zelenka's score Praise the Strong God were in Prague since the end of the 19th century. The older one is deposited in the archive of the Prague Hlahol Society, procured by Ferdinand Tadra. The copy bears a note relating to the source: "Copied from Zelenka's autograph, borrowed from the royal private collection in Dresden, in the month of December 1877, F. Tadra."
The title of the composition evidently copied from Zelenka's autograph reads:

Motetto
Chvalte Boha Sylneho
Basso solo
co VVⁿᶦ Viola, Oboi, Corni ed Org.
Partitura sola
del Sigr Zelenka

The second copy is today in the Museum of Czech Music in Prague. It's title is only a slight modification - particularly with regard to modern Czech grammar and the use of abbreviations - of Zelenka's autograph :

Motetto
"Chvalte Boha silného"
Violini, Viola, Oboi, Corni ed Organo
složil
Zelenka

The copy was not signed and we know little about it's origins. It was part of a larger collection of music material which in 1923 came from the Ethnographic Museum to be included in the music collection of the then Zemské museum /Provincial Museum in Prague, the first predecessor of the present Museum of Czech Music/. The inventory includes a note that it was a copy made in 1895. It is not known who made it nor for what purpose and from what material. It may be a copy of Tadra's transcription, but judging from the small difference in the music notation, it is more likely that it is a new copy made according to the autograph.

I: Chvalte Boha silného - 00:00
II: Chvalte zvuku trouby - 5:08
III: Všeliký duch chval Hospodina, Allelujah! - 10:08

Performer(s):    • Praise God in His Sanctuary. Aria for...