Janez Krstnik Dolar (1620-1673)
- Missa Viennensis a 32 (1667)
Performers: Chorus N'omen; Grazer Choral Schola; Orchestra Barocca di Bologna;
Franz Karl Prassl (conductor)
Further info: Janez Krstnik Dolar (1620-1673)
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Slovenian composer. He studied at the Jesuit college in Ljubljana until
1639, when he was accepted as a novice in Vienna, where he studied
philosophy. After 1645 he taught at the Jesuit high school in Ljubljana
before continuing his theological studies in Vienna. He was ordained in
1652. From 1656 to 1658 he was musical director at the Jesuit college,
Ljubljana, after which he was called to Passau. In 1659 he was listed as
a regens chori in Györ, Hungary. In 1661 or 1662 he became director of
the Jesuit seminary of St Ignites and Pancraties, Vienna, as well as
musical director of the Kirche Am Hof. He held this post until his
death. Dolar’s music apparently appeared in two printed editions,
Musicalia varia (1665) and Drammata seu Miserere mei Deus (1666), but
these have not survived. Transcriptions of his works are mentioned in
the musical registers of monasteries in Bohemia and Moravia (Osek,
Slaný, Česky Krumlov, Kroměříž), Hungary and Austria (St Paul im
Lavanttal, Eisenstadt, Kremsmünster), and in the register of a court
chapel in Rudolstadt, Thuringia. The archives of the Prince-Bishop of
Olomouc, Karl Lichtenstein-Castelcorn, preserve 13 compositions by
Dolar, probably transcribed by Josef Vejvanovski: two masses, five
psalms, an antiphon, two sonatas and three ballettos. The archive of the
Benedictine abbey in Kremsmünster preserves the monumental Missa
Viennensis, transcribed by Theophil Schrenk. The masses, psalms and
antiphon are for four to 16 voices with instruments. The sonatas were
undoubtedly written for church services, but the ballettos would have
been used in seminary and monastery refectories. Dolar’s works all
exhibit elements of Italian musical style, popular among Viennese court
musicians in the second half of the 17th century.
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