Zelenka - Missa Eucharistica, ZWV 15

#jan #dismas #zelenka #score #sheetmusic #zwv #15 Score / sheet music of Zelenka’s Missa Eucharistica, /Z. 15./ Zelenka’s autograph score of this mass is dated 1723, the monumental year when he composed so much great music, but for which occasion the mass was written remains unknown. Zelenka’s confusing entries in his own inventory (Inventarium rerum Musicarum Variorum Authorum Ecclesia Servientium) certainly do not help to clarify matters first, with the mass originally being listed at it seems to pre-date the Missa Purificationis /Z. 16/, dated 23 August, 1733, the next entry at . However, Zelenka later crossed out the Missa Eucharistica entry, only to renumber it on a newly inserted folio in the inventory, but now at no. 47. The reason for this is unclear but it might reflect the sequence in which the works were written. In 1987 the late Wolfgang Horn proposed that the mass was heard in the Catholic court church on 12 October 1733, when the election of the Saxon Elector Friedri