Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner

Gaudens gaudebo

The work was created as an antiphon for the festive novena to St. Teresa of Ávila. P. Carolus Josephus à Sigismundo OCD commissioned Brentner in Prague to compose music for the feast introduced by the Discalced Carmelite nuns of Graz in 1718. Several sources of the composition are known. In an arrangement made by a local musician, the piece survived anonymously in Bolivia's Jesuit missions.

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 (collection) RISM record (item)

Parts, copy of "Gaudens gaudebo" and "Vulnerasti cor meum"

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, complete]

8 parts; 34 × 21,5 cm

The source contains two compositions, Brk 32 and Brk 44. The parts bear the designations Canto, Alto, Tenore, Basso, Violino Primo, Violino 2do, and Organo (2 copies); the second Org part is written in a different hand. Both compositions are supplied with two texts: Vulnerasti cor meum / En parata est mensa and Gaudens gaudebo / Adoro te devote.

Academus Edition: Source B

CZ-Pak (Archiv Pražského hradu, Hudební sbírka svatovítské katedrály, Prague) 1584 RISM record item RISM record collection

Transcript of "Gaudens gaudebo" by P. Maurus Brunnmayr

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

1745-02-24

7 parts (each on one folio), cover (bifolio); 31 × 21 cm

The parts are marked Canto, Alto, Tenore, Basso, Violino 1mo, Violino 2do, and Organo. They werewritten on the back of older parts from two different unidentified compositions. Performance dates on the back of the cover: 21. Maji 784 | 19. Nov. 784 | 17. Martii 785. | 7. 8bris 785.

Academus Edition: Source E

A-GÖ (Benediktinerstift Göttweig, Göttweig) 1027

Parts, transcript of "Gaudens gaudebo"

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

The middle part of the composition was substantially transformed into a solo aria. A modern edition was based on see below.

Academus Edition: Source F

Lost copy from Rajhrad

[Classification: Inventory record]

Not after 1725

Listed in the 1725 music inventory from the Benedictine monastery in Rajhrad (O ffertoria de Sanctis): " De iisdem [= Virginibus] Gaudens gaudebo Brentner " . The source is presumably lost.

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