Solo S, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, 2 Vl, Va, Bc

The Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka was a double bass player and church music composer t the Saxon court of the Elector August the Strong and his son Friedrich August II. In he years after 1721 he composed an extensive repertoire of Catholic church music together ith the Kapellmeister Johann David Heinichen. These works, together with the Dresden operas omposed by Johann Adolf Hasse in quick succession from 1731 onwards, established the reputationf t...