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The Dresden court attracted many foreign musicians under Heinrich Schütz, who developed a chapel of international repute during his long term of office as court Capellmeisterfrom to In the early s, composers, impresarios, famous singers, and instrumental virtuosos came from all over Europe, including the eastern countries, and Dresden's display of splendor as the "Florence on the Elbe," the predominant center of music and the arts in 17th- and 18th-century Germany, reached its zenith during the reign of Augustus the Strong () as Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.

Born in Loudovice, Bohemia in and son of an organist, Jan Dismas Zelenka (of whom no known portrait exists) was educated at the Prague Jesuit College, with which he continued to remain in contact. In , he moved to Dresden, where he became principal double-bass player of the Dresden court orchestra. Apart from specific journies to Italy, Vienna and periodic returns to Prague, Zelenka would remain in Dres