Boni Pueri Boys Choir - Vos Oriens adoret

From 'Sub olea pacis' - Melodrama de St. Wenceslao ZWV 175

Jan Dismas Zelenka(1679-1745) wa a Czech Baroque composer.

Zelenka was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, 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. He probably received musical training in the center of 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 about 1710. He studied counterpoint in Vienna under Fux from 1715 and was back in Dresden by 1719. Except for a visit in 1723 to Prague to take part in the performance of Fux's opera "Constanza e Fortezza," he remained a resident of Dresden until his death. Whether or not he ever went to Venice is unclear, but there is some indirect documentary evidence to that effect from the Vienna years.
In Dresden, Zelenka initially assisted the Kapellmeister, Johann David Heinichen, and gradually assumed Heinichen's duties as the latter's 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 given the title of church music composer. He was in good company, as J.S. Bach had also applied for this title and shared it with Zelenka. Zelenka died in Dresden in 1745, having written works in his final years that were never performed during his lifetime, some of which have been claimed by current Zelenka musicologist Kohlhase to have "visionary power."
There is no known portrait of Zelenka. (A mirror-image black-and-white takeoff of the well-known portrait of Fux has been passed off as a picture of Zelenka on several respected websites.)

Choirmaster: Pavel Horak, Jakub Martinec.

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[dagisa123]

thanks you a lot, treblechoir99,!! nice nice nice :)

[treblechoir99]

Yes very nice piece. Singing with Boni Pueri is always staggering. Appreciat your comment.

[tritonusgesang]

Quelle belle musique! Et quel chant merveilleux!

Sa qualité! Formidable! :-)

[treblechoir99]

Oui absolument. On découvre de grands auteurs venant de cette période dans ce pays.

[Andrew4Handel]

This is one one of the best ever choruses!

[tkbewunderin79]

Wonderful!

[larkhallrules]

magnafique.

[WhatDoUThinkOfThat]

excellent!

[gabaude81]

S.V.P Pouvez-Vous me donner quelques précisions sur cette vidéo? (Lieu et Musicien).

Respectueusement..... Marcel-Paul