Zelenka - Te Deum, ZWV 146 {Urtext score}

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Urtext score / sheet music of the latter of two Te Deum settings by Zelenka /Z. 146/, this one being the more massive (and famous), for large baroque orchestra with 4 trumpets and timpani included, as well as double choir, one of Zelenka's finest works.
Composed in 1731, the elaborate and festive scoring may be connected to a special occasion - for which there is an obvious hypothesis. The Hof- und Staats-Calender /Court and State Calender/ of 1733 reports in connection with the birth of the Princess Maria Josepha Carolina Eleonora Francisca Xaveria on November the 4th 1731:
"In the Court Church public thanks was given during the morning sermons /of November the 4th, or more likely, November the 5th, 1731/, and the Te Deum Laudamus was sounded with timpani and trumpets; the solemn feast of thanksgiving was only held 8 days later, on November the 11th, by announcement of a special thanksgiving for the entire country and by the singing of the Ambrosian Hymn /the Te Deum Laudamus/".
Zelenka may have composed his Te Deum /Z. 146/ for the impending occasion of the Electoral Princess Maria Josepha's birth and performed it during one of the thanksgiving services held in the Dresden Court Church. For the date of November the 11th 1731 entered in the Hof- und Staats-Calender as the "Feast of Thanks-giving", the Diarium Missionis Societatis Jesu Dresdae gives no information of a musical nature, though usually it recorded all important events and services, sometimes even including information about the composers and performers of the respective figural music. And for Monday 5th November 1731, the day after the birth, it is merely recorded that the "Te Deum Laudamus" was sung "cum assistentia" after the mass; no mention is made of figural music, so the Te Deum will have simply been recited in the monodic, liturgical manner. In short, there is no concrete evidence of the date of the first performance of Zelenka's Te Deum, /Z. 146/ but a connection with the thanksgiving service on the occasion of the birth of the Princess Maria Josepha remains very likely.
Particular attention is drawn to the dividing of /Z. 146/ into two parts by means of the monodic Gregorian intonation "Salvum fac" /movement VII/, which is performed by the tenors and basses of the chorus accompanied by string bass instruments and organ /tasto solo/. The interruption of the composition and the following intonation are associated wit the Eucharistic blessing which is given before or during the "Salvum fac".
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I: Te Deum laudamus (Chorus) - 00:00
II: Tu rex gloriae (Soprano, Alto) - 5:04
III: Tu ad liberandum (Alto) - 7:32
IV: Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes (Tenor, Bass) - 12:52
V: Judex crederis (Chorus) - 14:11
VI: Aeterna fac (Chorus, Fugue) - 16:06
VII: Intonatio: Salvum fac (Intonatio) - 17:46
VIII: Et rege eos (Chorus) - 18:11
IX: Per singulos dies (2 Soprano, Alto) - 19:33
X: In te, Domine (Chorus, Double Fugue) - 24:15
Performer(s): • Bach & Zelenka: Jan Di...

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Composed in 1731, the elaborate and festive scoring may be connected to a special occasion - for which there is an obvious hypothesis. The Hof- und Staats-Calender /Court and State Calender/ of 1733 reports in connection with the birth of the Princess Maria Josepha Carolina Eleonora Francisca Xaveria on November the 4th 1731:
"In the Court Church public thanks was given during the morning sermons /of November the 4th, or more likely, November the 5th, 1731/, and the Te Deum Laudamus was sounded with timpani and trumpets; the solemn feast of thanksgiving was only held 8 days later, on November the 11th, by announcement of a special thanksgiving for the entire country and by the singing of the Ambrosian Hymn /the Te Deum Laudamus/".
Zelenka may have composed his Te Deum /Z. 146/ for the impending occasion of the Electoral Princess Maria Josepha's birth and performed it during one of the thanksgiving services held in the Dresden Court Church. For the date of November the 11th 1731 entered in the Hof- und Staats-Calender as the "Feast of Thanks-giving", the Diarium Missionis Societatis Jesu Dresdae gives no information of a musical nature, though usually it recorded all important events and services, sometimes even including information about the composers and performers of the respective figural music. And for Monday 5th November 1731, the day after the birth, it is merely recorded that the "Te Deum Laudamus" was sung "cum assistentia" after the mass; no mention is made of figural music, so the Te Deum will have simply been recited in the monodic, liturgical manner. In short, there is no concrete evidence of the date of the first performance of Zelenka's Te Deum, /Z. 146/ but a connection with the thanksgiving service on the occasion of the birth of the Princess Maria Josepha remains very likely.
Particular attention is drawn to the dividing of /Z. 146/ into two parts by means of the monodic Gregorian intonation "Salvum fac" /movement VII/, which is performed by the tenors and basses of the chorus accompanied by string bass instruments and organ /tasto solo/. The interruption of the composition and the following intonation are associated wit the Eucharistic blessing which is given before or during the "Salvum fac".