Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner

Regnum mundi

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. The composition survived in several sources as motet “de Beata Virgine Maria” or “de Virginibus”. The Prague source is wrongly attributed to Antonín Reichenauer, who set a similar text to music too.

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)

Prague transcript of "Regnum mundi" ascribed to Reichenauer

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

9 parts

The parts are marked Canto, Alto, Tenoe, Basso, Violino 1mo, Violino 2do, and Organo. The Violine part is written in a different hand, and the Alto Trombone and Tenore Trombone parts were written later in a different hand on a different paper.

Academus Edition: Source J

CZ-Pak (Archiv Pražského hradu, Hudební sbírka svatovítské katedrály, Prague) 1062 RISM record

Transcript of "Regnum mundi" from Göttweig

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

7 parts (each on one folio), cover (bifolio); 34 × 21 cm

The parts are marked Canto Conc., Alto Conc., Tenore Conc., Basso Conc., Violino Primo, Violino Secondo and Organo. On the back of the cover in the middle, there is crossed-out inscription: B. Penedius | und B. Maurus | und B: Aprosius | B: Männes | n.n. n.n. Performance dates are written on the back of the cover: 27. Augusti 784. | 8. 8bris. 785. | 17. 8bri 753. 22 Julij Sub Sacro mat. 754.

Academus Edition: Source K

A-GÖ (Benediktinerstift Göttweig, Göttweig) 1030

Lost copy 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): 8. Regnum mundi â 4. Voc. 2. VV. 2. Trombon. | 4 Rip. con Organo, Violone. Idem [= Brentner].

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