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Composer of the Week

Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)

Episode 2

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

With Donald Macleod. A royal wedding gives Zelenka the perfect chance to impress the Dresden court with a musical drama bigger than anything he's previously attempted. But it's in another area that he soon begins to specialise: as a composer of requiem masses, including a stunning work written for the obsequies of his own father in 1724. Show less

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