[Music for the novena to St Teresa]

The collection of nine litanies and nine antiphons for the novena to St Teresa of Ávila in its original form is preserved in an anonymous incomplete source from Győr only. The authorship by Brentner is evidenced by numerous concordances with other sources containing single compositions surviving independently, some of them also with new texts (see Brk 44, Brk 45 and Brk Coll. 8), as well as by a mention in the chronicle of the Carmelite nuns in Graz.

P. Carolus Josephus à Sigismundo OCD commissioned Brentner in Prague to compose music for the festivity introduced by the Discalced Carmelite nuns of Graz in 1718. In Prague, the Discalced Carmelite nuns introduced the festive worship in 1721 (see Document), perhaps also with the music by Brentner. However, the Prague composer Antonín Reichenauer set some of the respective texts to music too.

Includes:

Litaniae in B Brk 24
Gloria Libani Brk 34
Litaniae in F Brk 20
Audi, filia Brk 25
Litaniae in B Brk 22
Regnum mundi Brk 41
Litaniae in F Brk 18
Induit me Genitrix Brk 35
Litaniae in C Brk 17
Vulnerasti cor meum Brk 44
Litaniae in B Brk 23
Tu, gloria Jerusalem Brk 43
Litaniae in F Brk 19
Gaudens gaudebo Brk 31
Litaniae in C Brk 16
Sancta mater Teresia Brk 42
Litaniae in C Brk 15
Zelo zelata sum Brk 45

Composition: 1718

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

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