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 J.D. Zelenka's Profile |
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If it's not baroque...don't fix it! |
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| Country: |  Czech Republic |
| Last Login: | Oct 31, 2007 (782 days back) |
About Me |
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| What wikipedia has to say on me:Jan Dismas Zelenka (October 16, 1679 - December, 1745) was a Czech Baroque composer whose music was notably adventurous with great harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint.Zelenka played the violone, the largest and lowest member of the viol family, analogous to the double-bass in the violin family of stringed instruments.Zelenka was born in Louovice, a small market town southeast of Prague in what was then Bohemia. His father was a schoolmaster and organist there. Nothing more is known with certainty about Zelenka's early years. It is thought he may have received some musical training in Prague at a Jesuit college named the Clementinum.It is known that Zelenka served Baron Hartig, the imperial governor resident in Prague before becoming a violone player in the royal orchestra at Dresden in 1710. He studied music in Vienna and Venice in 1715 and 1716. He was back in Dresden by 1719. Except for a visit in 1723 to Prague and an occasional trip, he remained a resident of Dresden until his death.In Dresden, Zelenka initially assisted the Kapellmeister, Johann David Heinichen, and gradually assumed Heinichen's duties as his health declined. After Heinichen died in 1729, Zelenka applied for the prestigious post of Kapellmeister. The post went, instead, to Johann Adolf Hasse. In 1735 Zelenka was named a mere church music composer. Zelenka died in Dresden in 1745.As might be expected, most of Zelenka's compositions were sacred works. They included three oratorios, 12 masses, and numerous other pieces of sacred music. Zelenka's orchestral and vocal pieces are often virtuosic and demanding. In particular, his writing for bass instruments is far more demanding than that of other composers of his era and the "utopian" (as Heinz Holliger describes them) requirements on the oboe playing in his trio sonatas are also notable.One of J.S. Bach's sons later recalled that: "No master of music was apt to pass through this place (Leipzig) without making my father's acquaintance and letting himself be heard by him." As Christoph Wolff noted in his brilliant biography of Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, "Guests (of J.S. Bach) included some of the leading figures in contemporary German musical life, among them ... Jan Dismas Zelenka...."(Thanks to Wikipedia) | |
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Music:Member Since: 5/5/2006Band Website: jdzelenka.net/ Band Members: Myself mainly....In the recording of the vocal works you will hear on my profile, I thank the fantastic baroque orchestra "Il Fondamento" with their conductor and head, Paul Dombrecht.For the non-vocal work's, I thank Vaclac Luks' wonderful prague baroque orchestra "Collegium 1704".Thanks guys! Influences: Should you wish to be the designer of your own delight, then click here to make a myspace layout of your own. Record Label: The Catholic Church Type of Label: None |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Classical) |
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