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Jan Dismas Zelenka

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Jan Dismas Zelenka (baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka 16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745), also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka, sometimes Johannes Lucas Ignatius Dismas Zelenka, was a Czech composer and musician of the Baroque period. [1]

124 relations: Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic, Adam Viktora, Antiphon, Antonín Dvořák, Antonio Lotti, Antonio Vivaldi, Aria, Ars Rediviva, Augustus II the Strong, Augustus III of Poland, Autograph, Baroque, Baroque music, Bedřich Smetana, Bohemia, Bohuslav Martinů, Bombing of Dresden in World War II, Boni Pueri, the Czech Boys Choir, Camerata Bern, Capella Regia, Capriccio (music), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Chorale, Christian Petzold (composer), Clementinum, Collegium 1704, Concerto, Confirmation, Counterpoint, Czech Philharmonic, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Czechs, Damian Thompson, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Diatonic and chromatic, Domenico Annibali, Dresden, Dresden Cathedral, Edel AG, Edema, Elbe, Faustina Bordoni, Folk music, Frederick the Great, Frieder Bernius, Fugue, Galant style, Georg Philipp Telemann, ..., George Frideric Handel, Germany, Giovanni Alberto Ristori, Harmony, Heinz Holliger, House of Habsburg, Hymn, Idiosyncrasy, Il Diamante, Il Serpente di Bronzo, Interregnum, Johann Adolph Hasse, Johann David Heinichen, Johann Georg Pisendel, Johann Joachim Quantz, Johann Joseph Fux, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Kapellmeister, Leipzig, Leoš Janáček, Linn Records, Litany, Louňovice pod Blaníkem, Ludwig Güttler, Magdalena Kožená, Magnificat, Marek Štryncl, Maria Josepha of Austria, Marie Uchytilová, Mass, Mass (music), Melodrama, Mezzo-soprano, Milan Munclinger, Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis, Missa Votiva, Monica Huggett, Music for the Requiem Mass, Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague, Musica Florea, Nedda Casei, Nicola Porpora, Opus number, Oratorio, Overture, Palestrina, Phonograph record, Prague, Psalms, Public speaking, Recitative, Reinhard Goebel, Saxony, Society of Jesus, Staatskapelle Dresden, Studio Matouš, Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis, Supraphon, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Symphony, Syncopation, Te Deum, Theo Altmeyer, Trio sonata, Tuplet, Universal Music Group, Venice, Vienna, Viol, Violone, Vladimír Hirsch, Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Expand index (74 more) »

Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic

Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic – literally Adam Václav Michna of Otradovice – (1600 – 2 November 1676, Jindřichův Hradec) was a Czech Catholic poet, composer, hymn writer, organist and choir leader of the early Baroque era.

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Adam Viktora

Adam Viktora (born 6 September 1996) is a Seychellois Olympic swimmer.

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Antiphon

An antiphon (Greek ἀντίφωνον, ἀντί "opposite" and φωνή "voice") is a short chant in Christian ritual, sung as a refrain.

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Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer.

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Antonio Lotti

Antonio Lotti (5 January 1667 – 5 January 1740) was an Italian Baroque composer.

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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric.

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Aria

An aria (air; plural: arie, or arias in common usage, diminutive form arietta or ariette) in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer.

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Ars Rediviva

Ars Rediviva was a Czech instrumental early music group, whose historically informed performances played a key role in the revival of Baroque music in Czechoslovakia.

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Augustus II the Strong

Augustus II the Strong (August II.; August II Mocny; Augustas II; 12 May 16701 February 1733) of the Albertine line of the House of Wettin was Elector of Saxony (as Frederick Augustus I), Imperial Vicar and elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

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Augustus III of Poland

Augustus III (August III Sas, Augustas III; 17 October 1696 5 October 1763) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1734 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire from 1733 until 1763 where he was known as Frederick Augustus II (Friedrich August II).

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Autograph

Autograph is a famous person's artistic signature.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the late 18th century.

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Baroque music

Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.

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Bedřich Smetana

Bedřich Smetana (2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood.

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Bohemia

Bohemia (Čechy;; Czechy; Bohême; Bohemia; Boemia) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic.

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Bohuslav Martinů

Bohuslav Jan Martinů (December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer of modern classical music.

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Bombing of Dresden in World War II

The bombing of Dresden was a British/American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II in the European Theatre.

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Boni Pueri, the Czech Boys Choir

BONI PUERI, was founded in 1982 and has become one of Europe's most famous musical ensembles.

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Camerata Bern

Located in Bern, Switzerland, the Camerata Bern was founded in 1963 by musicians as a flexible chamber orchestra without a conductor.

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Capella Regia

Capella Regia Prague, formerly Capella Regia Musicalis, is a Czech early music ensemble founded in 1992 by Robert Hugo.

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Capriccio (music)

A capriccio or caprice (sometimes plural: caprices, capri or, in Italian, capricci), is a piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character.

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second (surviving) son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.

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Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles VI (1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740; Karl VI.) succeeded his elder brother, Joseph I, as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (as Charles II), King of Hungary and Croatia, Serbia and Archduke of Austria (as Charles III) in 1711.

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Chorale

Chorale is the name of several related musical forms originating in the music genre of the Lutheran chorale.

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Christian Petzold (composer)

Christian Petzold (1677 – before 2 June 1733) was a German composer and organist.

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Clementinum

The Clementinum (Klementinum in Czech) is a historic complex of buildings in Prague.

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Collegium 1704

Collegium 1704 is a Czech early music orchestra and choir founded in 1991 by the Czech conductor, harpsichordist and horn player Václav Luks.

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Concerto

A concerto (plural concertos, or concerti from the Italian plural) is a musical composition usually composed in three movements, in which, usually, one solo instrument (for instance, a piano, violin, cello or flute) is accompanied by an orchestra or concert band.

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Confirmation

In Christianity, confirmation is seen as the sealing of Christianity created in baptism.

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Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.

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Czech Philharmonic

The Česká filharmonie (Czech Philharmonic) is a Czech symphony orchestra based in Prague.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko), was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the:Czech Republic and:Slovakia on 1 January 1993.

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Czechs

The Czechs (Češi,; singular masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka) or the Czech people (Český národ), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and Czech language.

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Damian Thompson

Damian Thompson (born 1962) is an English journalist, editor and author.

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Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (founded 1958) is a German classical music record label.

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Diatonic and chromatic

Diatonic (διατονική) and chromatic (χρωματική) are terms in music theory that are most often used to characterize scales, and are also applied to musical instruments, intervals, chords, notes, musical styles, and kinds of harmony.

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Domenico Annibali

Domenico Annibali (c. 1705 – 1779) was an Italian castrato who had an active international career from 1725–1764.

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Dresden

Dresden (Upper and Lower Sorbian: Drježdźany, Drážďany, Drezno) is the capital city and, after Leipzig, the second-largest city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.

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Dresden Cathedral

Dresden Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Dresden, previously the Catholic Church of the Royal Court of Saxony, called in German Katholische Hofkirche and since 1980 also known as Kathedrale Sanctissimae Trinitatis, is the Catholic Cathedral of Dresden.

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Edel AG

Edel AG is a German independent record label.

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Edema

Edema, also spelled oedema or œdema, is an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the interstitium, located beneath the skin and in the cavities of the body, which can cause severe pain.

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Elbe

The Elbe (Elbe; Low German: Elv) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe.

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Faustina Bordoni

Faustina Bordoni (30 March 1697 – 4 November 1781) was an Italian mezzo-soprano.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Frederick the Great

Frederick II (Friedrich; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was King of Prussia from 1740 until 1786, the longest reign of any Hohenzollern king.

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Frieder Bernius

Frieder Bernius (born 22 June 1947) is a German conductor, the founder and director of the chamber choir Kammerchor Stuttgart, founded in 1968.

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Fugue

In music, a fugue is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and which recurs frequently in the course of the composition.

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Galant style

The galant style was an 18th-century movement in music, visual arts and literature.

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Georg Philipp Telemann

Georg Philipp Telemann (– 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (born italic; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Giovanni Alberto Ristori

Giovanni Alberto Ristori (1692 - 7 February 1753) was an Italian opera composer and conductor.

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Harmony

In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.

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Heinz Holliger

Heinz Robert Holliger (born 21 May 1939) is a Swiss oboist, composer and conductor.

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House of Habsburg

The House of Habsburg (traditionally spelled Hapsburg in English), also called House of Austria was one of the most influential and distinguished royal houses of Europe.

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Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.

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Idiosyncrasy

An idiosyncrasy is an unusual feature of a person (though there are also other uses, see below).

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Il Diamante

Il Diamante (The Diamond), ZWV 177, is a composition from 1737 by Czech baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka.

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Il Serpente di Bronzo

Il Serpente di Bronzo, ZWV 61 is a sacred cantata composed by the Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745).

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Interregnum

An interregnum (plural interregna or interregnums) is a period of discontinuity or "gap" in a government, organization, or social order.

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Johann Adolph Hasse

Johann Adolph Hasse (born in Bergedorf, near Hamburg, baptised 25 March 1699 – died in Venice 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music.

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Johann David Heinichen

Johann David Heinichen (17 April 1683 – 16 July 1729) was a German Baroque composer and music theorist who brought the musical genius of Venice to the court of Augustus the Strong in Dresden.

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Johann Georg Pisendel

Johann Georg Pisendel (– 25 November 1755) was a German Baroque musician, violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra in Dresden, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe.

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Johann Joachim Quantz

Johann Joachim Quantz (30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German flautist, flute maker and Baroque music composer.

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Johann Joseph Fux

Johann Joseph Fux (c. 1660 – 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era.

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Johann Nikolaus Forkel

Johann Nikolaus Forkel (22 February 1749 – 20 March 1818) was a German musician, musicologist and music theorist.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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Kapellmeister

Kapellmeister is a German word designating a person in charge of music-making.

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Leipzig

Leipzig is the most populous city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.

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Leoš Janáček

Leoš Janáček (baptised Leo Eugen Janáček; 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher.

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Linn Records

Linn Records is a Glasgow-based record label which specialises in classical music, jazz and Scottish music.

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Litany

Litany, in Christian worship and some forms of Judaic worship, is a form of prayer used in services and processions, and consisting of a number of petitions.

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Louňovice pod Blaníkem

Louňovice pod Blaníkem (Launiowitz) is a municipality and market town in Benešov District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

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Ludwig Güttler

Ludwig Güttler (born 13 June 1943) is an internationally known German virtuoso on the Baroque trumpet, the piccolo trumpet and the corno da caccia.

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Magdalena Kožená

Magdalena Kožená (also Lady Rattle;; born 26 May 1973) is a Czech mezzo-soprano.

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Magnificat

The Magnificat (Latin for " magnifies ") is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary, the Canticle of Mary and, in the Byzantine tradition, the Ode of the Theotokos.

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Marek Štryncl

Marek Štryncl is a Czech conductor, violoncellist, choirmaster, and composer, who was born in 1974 in Jablonec nad Nisou.

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Maria Josepha of Austria

Maria Josepha of Austria (Maria Josepha Benedikta Antonia Theresia Xaveria Philippine, Maria Józefa; 8 December 1699 – 17 November 1757) was the last Queen of Poland by marriage to Augustus III.

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Marie Uchytilová

Marie Uchytilová-Kučová (17 January 1924 – 16 November 1989) was a Czech sculptor, medallist and creator of busts and statues of important personalities of the Czech culture.

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Mass

Mass is both a property of a physical body and a measure of its resistance to acceleration (a change in its state of motion) when a net force is applied.

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Mass (music)

The Mass (italic), a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism) to music.

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Melodrama

A melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Milan Munclinger

Milan Munclinger (3 July 1923 Košice, Slovakia, Czechoslovakia – 30 March 1986 Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a significant Czech flautist, conductor, composer and musical scientist.

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Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis

Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis (The Holiest Trinity Mass) in A minor, ZWV 17, is the vocal-instrumental sacred work, written by Czech baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka.

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Missa Votiva

The Missa Votiva is a mass composed by the Czech Baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka in 1739, Dresden.

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Monica Huggett

Monica Huggett (born 16 May 1953 in London, England) is a British conductor and leading baroque violinist.

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Music for the Requiem Mass

The Requiem Mass is notable for the large number of musical compositions that it has inspired, including settings by Mozart, Verdi, Bruckner, Dvořák, Fauré and Duruflé.

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Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague

is a CD series published by Czech record label Supraphon since 2009.

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Musica Florea

Musica Florea is Czech Baroque music ensemble, founded 1992 by conductor and cellist Marek Štryncl, located in Prague.

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Nedda Casei

Nedda Casei (born September 9, 1932) is an operatic mezzo-soprano.

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Nicola Porpora

Nicola (Antonio) Porpora (or Niccolò Porpora) (17 August 16863 March 1768) was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli.

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Opus number

In musical composition, the opus number is the "work number" that is assigned to a composition, or to a set of compositions, to indicate the chronological order of the composer's production.

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Oratorio

An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists.

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Overture

Overture (from French ouverture, "opening") in music is the term originally applied to the instrumental introduction to an opera.

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Palestrina

Palestrina (ancient Praeneste; Πραίνεστος, Prainestos) is an ancient city and comune (municipality) with a population of about 21,000, in Lazio, about east of Rome.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Prague

Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Psalms

The Book of Psalms (תְּהִלִּים or, Tehillim, "praises"), commonly referred to simply as Psalms or "the Psalms", is the first book of the Ketuvim ("Writings"), the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament.

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Public speaking

Public speaking (also called oratory or oration) is the process or act of performing a speech to a live audience.

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Recitative

Recitative (also known by its Italian name "recitativo") is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech.

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Reinhard Goebel

Reinhard Goebel (born 31 July 1952 in Siegen, West Germany) is a German conductor and violinist specialising in early music on authentic instruments and professor for historical performance at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

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Saxony

The Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen; Swobodny stat Sakska) is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland (Lower Silesian and Lubusz Voivodeships) and the Czech Republic (Karlovy Vary, Liberec, and Ústí nad Labem Regions).

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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Staatskapelle Dresden

The Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden (known colloquially as the Staatskapelle Dresden) is a German orchestra based in Dresden.

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Studio Matouš

The Studio Matouš company, founded in 1991, publishes and distributes CDs with classical music.

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Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis

Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis conspicua orbi regia Bohemiae Corona: Melodrama de Sancto Wenceslao (Under the Olive Tree of Peace and the Palm Tree of Virtue the Crown of Bohemia Splendidly Shines Before the Whole World: Melodrama to Saint Wenceslaus), ZWV 175, is an extensive composition, written in 1723 by Czech baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka.

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Supraphon

Supraphon Music Publishing is a Czech record label, oriented mainly towards publishing classical music and popular music, with an emphasis on Czech and Slovak composers.

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Sylvius Leopold Weiss

Sylvius Leopold Weiss (12 October 168716 October 1750) was a German composer and lutenist.

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Symphony

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often written by composers for orchestra.

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Syncopation

In music, syncopation involves a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected which make part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat.

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Te Deum

The Te Deum (also known as Ambrosian Hymn or A Song of the Church) is an early Christian hymn of praise.

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Theo Altmeyer

Theo Altmeyer (16 March 1931 – 28 July 2007) was a German classical tenor.

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Trio sonata

The trio sonata is a musical form that was found throughout the Baroque era and occurred in two forms in the last decades of the 17th century to the first half of the 18th century: the sonata da camera and the sonata da chiesa.

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Tuplet

In music, a tuplet (also irrational rhythm or groupings, artificial division or groupings, abnormal divisions, irregular rhythm, gruppetto, extra-metric groupings, or, rarely, contrametric rhythm) is "any rhythm that involves dividing the beat into a different number of equal subdivisions from that usually permitted by the time-signature (e.g., triplets, duplets, etc.)".

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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Viol

The viol, viola da gamba, or (informally) gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch of each of the strings.

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Violone

The term violone (literally "large viol" in Italian, "-one" being the augmentative suffix) can refer to several distinct large, bowed musical instruments which belong to either the viol or violin family.

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Vladimír Hirsch

Vladimír Hirsch (born July 3, 1954) is a Czech composer, instrumentalist (pianist, organist, keyboard player, vocalist), and sound experimenter, integrating industrial and dark ambient music with modern classical composition with a genre overlap conception.

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Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia

(Saint) Wenceslaus I (Václav; c. 907 – September 28, 935), Wenceslas I or Václav the Good was the duke (kníže) of Bohemia from 921 until his assassination in 935.

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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (22 November 1710 – 1 July 1784), the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer.

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Jan Lukáš Zelenka, Jan Zelenka, Johann Dismas Zelenka, Johann Zelenka.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Dismas_Zelenka

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