František Mensi
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Padre František Antonín Martin Mensi (March 28 1753 Bystré (Svitavy District) – December 28 1829 Pchery) was a priest, preacher and a composer.
Life[edit]
He was born in Bystré u Poličky as fourth of five and the first son to his Italian father, Petrus Alexi Mensi, originally from Venice, who raised daughters of Hohenems house, owners of the local manor, and his Czech mother Barbara Bittmannová, a daughter of a chief of Bystrá's hacienda. In 1757 his family moved to Chlumec nad Cidlinou, then to Křinec at Nymburk.
Later he goes to Prague. There, at the Jesuits he gained the bachelor of theology a philosophy major titles. In the monastery's boarding school - st. Bartholomew convict, he then worked as an tutor. At Josef Reicha (1752-1795) he studied to play violoncello, also violin at Czech composer and musician Kajetán Vogel (1750-1794). Later in his life, Mensi would be teaching to play these instruments.
In 1776 he started his vocation as a chaplain in Smečno. He would stay there to the rest of his days, though serving in clergy in other towns in Central Bohemia (Hobšovice, Kvílice u Slaného, Družec, Pchery).
He was buried on december 31th in Pchery's cemetery at st. Steven church. The cemetery was discontinued at the beginning of the 20th century, also the house in which he was born didn't make it till presence, and we don't even know his appearance. What did survive, however, was the body of his work in the st. Trinity church in Smečno.
Work[edit]
Mensi's musical work is neither the one of significant influence to the history of Czech music of the time, nor so numerous in quantity such as one of František Xaver Brixi (1732-1771), so important for Czech classicism. Despite František Mensi managed to create a distinguishable music.
It can be divided into three groups:
- motettos and offertorios
- Marian antiphones
- ocassional ceremonial cantata-styled compositions
In his music both baroque and classicism influence can be heard.
His work counts ca 50 pieces, most (31) found in Smečno.
External links[edit]
- František Mensi – Life and work (in Czech)
- https://www.ceskyhudebnislovnik.cz/slovnik/index.php?option=com_mdictionary&task=record.record_detail&id=1122
- https://ipac.svkkl.cz/arl-kl/cs/detail-kl_us_auth-0223892-Mensi-Frantisek-17531829/
- https://biblio.hiu.cas.cz/records/558fe9a5-5d5a-4016-b8b4-44a5b448d0d1
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