Zelenka - I penitenti al sepolcro del redentore, ZWV 63. Autograph score + 4k HD

#jan #dismas #zelenka #score #sheetmusic #zwv #zwv63 #63 The autograph of the Oratorio “I Penitenti al Sepolcro del Redentore“, in English: “The penitents at the tomb of the redeemer“, ZWV 63 by Jan Dismas Zelenka. This work was commissioned and first composed for a performance on Good Friday, March 30 1736, for his employer Augustus III, in Dresden. The text, written by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicini, combines the Old and New Testaments, by depicting an imaginary meeting between King David, Mary Magdalene and Peter at Christ's tomb. The work departing from the usual canon of a setting of the text of one of the Gospels, being instead a poem focusing on the meaning of Christ's sacrifice, is unusual in this aspect. The work was well received, a contemporary diary from the Dresden Jesuits reporting that on the date in question, “at 8 pm a very elegant new oratorio composed by Zelenka titled I Penitenti al Sepolcro was heard, and for this, candles were placed in the