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Among Haydn’s over thirty settings of the Latin Ordinary

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Neun Responsorien zum Karfreitag = Nine responsories for Good Friday Harald Wanger Among Haydn’s over thirty settingsThe Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka was a double bass player and church music composer at the Saxon court of the Elector August the Strong and his son Friedrich August II. In the years after 1721 he composed an extensive repertoire of Catholic church music together with the Kapellmeister Johann David Heinichen. Although most of his works are committed to the modern concert style of the middle Baroque period, Zelenka also composed very expressive