ZELENKA | De profundis à 4. C: A: T: B, ZWV 95 {Autograph score}

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The autograph score of one of three settings of the De profundis text by Zelenka, /Z. 95/, a short setting focused on a alternating chorale-soloist role, in a simple, but very sincere way.
Zelenka dated this setting "29 Decem 1728". Psalm 129 is required only for Vespers of the Octave of Christmas: 25 December until 1 January. Members of the Kapellknaben ensemble /who had holidays from 24-28 December/ would have sung and played the first performance of this brief setting which Zelenka penned the day after he had completed the "Credo" of his Missa Circumcisions D.N.J.C, /Z. 11, dated "1728 28 Decem."/. Of 49 bars length, this De profundis is the shortest of all Zelenka’s Vespers compositions. As a model, perhaps Zelenka used a work from his own collection, a De profundis setting by Johann Caspar Fischer which also is composed in 49 bars. Despite its brevity, Zelenka employed the structure known as "Frame form" whereby the opening music returns at the doxology text "Sicut erat in principio" /as it was in the beginning/. The autograph score of this work reveals the pressure under which Zelenka often had to work. Originally, the upper strings and oboes simply doubled the SATB chorus and the bass line lacked figures. /"VV et Oboe colla Voci al Solito" is written at the head of the first page, and the text is only partially sketched/. At a later time Zelenka returned to add simple independent violin parts to this setting, as seen in music incipits of Dresden catalogue listings of 1765 and circa 1784.
Performer & Album Info - 3:57
Performer(s):
De profundis, ZWV 95 · Adam Viktora · Inegal Ensemble · Prague Baroque Solists
Zelenka Psalmi Varii
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[@TheOneAndOnlyZelenkaGuru]

High quality re-upload of this score-video, the finished product which will remain forever hopefully, should there be no copyright issues in the future.
Other Psalm, Magnificat, and Hymn Settings (Z. 66-120) > ruclips.net/p/PLBbL1YJd7_Wq4sFE0tQRirOplJ1VwCJy7

[@michaelpapadopoulos5450]

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[@TheOneAndOnlyZelenkaGuru]

The autograph score of one of three settings of the De profundis text by Zelenka, /Z. 95/, a short setting focused on a alternating chorale-soloist role, in a simple, but very sincere way.
Zelenka dated this setting "29 Decem 1728". Psalm 129 is required only for Vespers of the Octave of Christmas: 25 December until 1 January. Members of the Kapellknaben ensemble /who had holidays from 24-28 December/ would have sung and played the first performance of this brief setting which Zelenka penned the day after he had completed the "Credo" of his Missa Circumcisions D.N.J.C, /Z. 11, dated "1728 28 Decem."/. Of 49 bars length, this De profundis is the shortest of all Zelenka’s Vespers compositions. As a model, perhaps Zelenka used a work from his own collection, a De profundis setting by Johann Caspar Fischer which also is composed in 49 bars. Despite its brevity, Zelenka employed the structure known as "Frame form" whereby the opening music returns at the doxology text "Sicut erat in principio" /as it was in the beginning/. The autograph score of this work reveals the pressure under which Zelenka often had to work. Originally, the upper strings and oboes simply doubled the SATB chorus and the bass line lacked figures. /"VV et Oboe colla Voci al Solito" is written at the head of the first page, and the text is only partially sketched/. At a later time Zelenka returned to add simple independent violin parts to this setting, as seen in music incipits of Dresden catalogue listings of 1765 and circa 1784.

[@AnnaBohemianBaroque]

Perhaps Zelenka was writing to the abilities of the Kapellknaben ensemble. It appears to me works commissioned for actual performance were less complex? (?)

[@TheOneAndOnlyZelenkaGuru]

This is no Missa Ultimae, that is for sure