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The autograph score to Jan Dismas Zelenka's large compilation of Lectio and Responsories, the "Officium Defunctorum" - Office for the Dead, /Z. 47/.
Composed in 1733, Zelenka noted in his inventory of this work, composed in tandem with the big Requiem in D Major, /Z. 46/:
"Requiem, written / oh sorrow! / for the exequies of my Master, His Most Serene Majesty the King of Poland, the Elector of Saxony, Frederich August, composed in the greatest haste: NB: the day before, i.e. on Wednesday 15th April, at the castrum doloris which had been erected with the greatest pomp, the Office of the Dead was celebrated for which I had to compose the invitatory, the lessons and the responsories in the utmost haste."
The memorial services for a Catholic ruler in the 18th century were not confined to the solemn Requiem but extended to the Liturgy of the Hours for the Dead, a derivation from monastic practice in which Matins, consisting of three nocturnes, occupied a special place.
The first nocturne begins with an invitatorium /invitation to prayer/, followed by three psalms and three lessons /readings/, each of which is answered by a responsory. The second and the third nocturne are identical in structure except for the invitatory. As befits the occasion, the readings are all taken from the Book of Job and deal with man's fragility and neediness before God in the face of death. Important to note, the text is altered slightly to reflect the status of the deceased ruler. I.e. "Ewige ruhe gib ihm, o Herr", /Eternal rest, grant unto him, O Lord/ replaces "Ewige ruhe gib ihnen, o Herr", /Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord/.
Although the format of the Office of the Dead is scarcely now part of a general education, the biblical texts heard together with Zelenka's magnificent music share common ground with contemporary funeral ceremonies irrespective of the original occasion.

Invitatorium:
I: Antipohna et Psalmus "Regem cui omnia vivunt" - 00:00
II: Nocturno I, Lectio 1: Parce mihi Domine - 10:42

Responsoria pro primo Nocturno
III: Nocturno I, Responsorium 1: Credo quo Redemptor - 15:58
IV: Nocturno I, Lectio 2: Taedet animam vitae meae - 18:26
V: Nocturno I, Responsorium 2: Qui Lazarum resuscitasti - 22:27
VI: Nocturno I, Lectio 3: Manus tuae facerunt - 26:34
VII: Nocturno I, Responsorium 3: Domine quando veneris - 30:57

Responsoria pro Secundo Nocturno
VIII: Nocturno II, Responsorium 4: Momento mei Domine - 36:20
IX: Nocturno II, Responsorium 5: Hei mihi Domine - 40:16
X: Nocturno II, Responsorium 6: Ne recordaris peccata mea - 44:14

Responsoria pro tertio Nocturno
XI: Nocturno III, Responsorium 7: Peccantem me quottidie - 47:58
XII: Nocturno III, Responsorium 8: Domine secundum actum meum - 53:03
XIII: Nocturno III, Responsorium 9: Libera me Domine - 57:28

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