Nevertheless, Zelenka's language is idiosyncratic in its unexpected harmonic twists, obsession with chromatic harmonies, huge usage of syncopated and tuplet figures, and unusually long phrases full of varied musical ideas.

His father was a schoolmaster and organist there ; nothing more is known with certainty about Zelenka's early years.

Zelenka's music is influenced by Czech folk music.

The rediscovery of Jan Dismas Zelenka's work is accredited to Bedřich Smetana, who rewrote some scores from the archives in Dresden and introduced one of the composer's orchestral suites in Prague's New Town Theatre festivals in 1863.

Obviously, Zelenka's opuses have not yet been completely explored, and there is room for new surprising recordings.

The total number of Zelenka's known and attributed opus numbered works is 249.

The most appreciated of Zelenka's sacred works are probably his masses, above all his Missa Purificationis ( this is the last mass to include brass instruments ) and his final 5 pieces, ZWV 17-21, called " High Mass " compositions, written from 1736 until 1741, considered as Zelenka's compositional peak.

The interest in Zelenka's music has begun to grow, especially since the end of the 1950s.

Zelenka composed only a few extensive vocal-instrumental pieces on secular themes, but one of them-Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis -- Melodrama de St. Wenceslao ( 1723 )-not only represents one of the high points in baroque music, but transcends it, as with many others of Zelenka's works.

Bach had some of his works copied: e. g. he instructed his son, Wilhelm Friedemann, to copy the Amen from Zelenka's third Magnificat ( ZWV 108 ) for use in Leipzig at St. Thomas's church.

Zelenka's pieces are characterized by very daring compositional structure, with a highly spirited harmonic invention and perfection of the art of counterpoint.

It was mistakenly assumed that many of Zelenka's autograph scores were destroyed during the fire-bombing of Dresden in February 1945.

By the late 1960s and early 1970s all Zelenka's instrumental compositions and selected liturgical music were published in Czechoslovakia.

More than half of Zelenka's works have now been recorded, mostly in the Czech Republic and Germany.

Since then, performances of Zelenka's music have regularly taken place in and around his birthplace.

Zelenka's compositions are completely listed in Wolfgang Reich's thematic catalogue Jan Dismas Zelenka: Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke ( ZWV ) and in Janice Stockigt's excellent monograph, Jan Dismas Zelenka: A Bohemian Musician at the Court of Dresden.

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