Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner
Brk 45
Zelo zelata sum
Amavit eum Dominus
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. Together with the antiphon “Vulnerasti cor meum” Brk 44 from the same collection, the piece was re-texted at some point before 1723 to “Amavit eum Dominus” – a change that the composer himself might make. The composition is fully known only in the new version. The soprano part only has survived from the first version. Both versions are musically almost identical.
Zelo zelata sum
Instrumentation:
C, A, T, B ;
2 vl, org (= bc)
Fresco, 51 bars
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
Amavit eum Dominus
Instrumentation:
C, A, T, B ;
2 vl, org (= bc)
Allegro, 51 bars
Sources
Parts, transcript of Amavit eum Dominus and O quam suavis (= Vulnerasti cor meum)
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, copy, parts, incomplete]
H-Gk
(Székesegyházi Kottatár,
Győr)
AMC, P.53
RISM record
Bibliography
Bárdos, Kornél: Györ zenéje a 17–18. században (Készült a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. Zenetudomynyi Intézetěben), Akad. Kiado: Budapest 1980, pp. 466.
Kapsa, Václav: 'The Novena to Saint Teresa of Jesus and the Work of Prague Composers around 1720'. Hudební věda, 3/57, 2020, pp. 254–290.
Czech version
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