Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner

Audi, filia

The work was composed as an antiphon for the festive novena to St. Teresa of Ávila. In Prague, Brentner was commissioned by P. Carolus Josephus à Sigismundo OCD to compose music for the religious celebration introduced originally by the Discalced Carmelite nuns of Graz in 1718. The composition has survived in two anonymous sources only, but the authorship is explicitly indicated in the music inventory of P. Ignatius Müllner, SJ.

Instrumentation:

C, A, T, B ; 2 vl, org (= bc)

Contained in: [Music for the novena to St. Teresa] Brk Coll 07

Composition: 1718

Edition: Offertoria solenniora (Academus Edition 6)

Music

Sources

Anonymous transcript of the music for novena, two parts only

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, copy, parts, incomplete]

28 + 16 folios; 32 × 21 cm

Only the Canto (complete contents, but only a fragment of the title page with the inscription "Canto" survived) and Basso (last litany and antiphon plus the title page are missing) are extant from this anonymously preserved source; the other parts are lost. Both units are bound in a single volume with a modern hardcover as a result of restoration. Two different hands occur in the manuscript. According to RISM, the source comes from the Carmelite monastery in Győr, the watermark points to the Wiener Neustadt as the place where the paper originated.

Watermark: Coat of arms of Wiener Neustadt and the countermark "NPM". The paper probably come from a paper mill operated in the latter half of the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth by the Pichlmayr family in Wiener Neustadt; see Georg Eineder: The Ancient Paper-mills of the Former Austro-Hungarian Empire and their Watermarks, Hilversum 1960, pp. 56–57 and fig. 399.

Academus Edition: Source A

H-Bn (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, Budapest) Ms. Mus. IV 773 RISM record

Parts, anonymous copy of Audi, filia

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, copy, parts, complete]

9 parts; 34 × 21 cm

The parts are marked Canto, Alto, Tenore, Basso, Violino Primo, Violino 2do, and Organo (two copies, the second of which is written in a different hand). The Alto Trombone and Tenore Trombone parts were written later in a different hand on a different paper. The trombones play with the A and T.

Academus Edition: Source D

CZ-Pak (Archiv Pražského hradu, Hudební sbírka svatovítské katedrály, Prague) 1577 RISM record

Lost transcript owned by P. Ignatius Müllner, SJ

[Classification: Inventory record]

Listed in the inventory of P. Ignatius Müllner on page 18 (Mottetta De Virginibus, Mart. Viduis): 6. Audi filia â 4. Voc. 2. VV. 2. Tromb. | 4 Rip. con Organo, Violone. Brendtner.

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