When Johann Hubert died in Prague in 1741, Zelenka dedicated his "Litaniae Lauretanae 'Salus infirmorum"' (ZWV 152) to his old patron. Baron von Hartig may have recommended Zelenka to the Dresden "Hofkapelle" (court orchestra) as a double bass player. In any event, he entered the service of the Dresden court with a salary of 300 thalers in 1710/11. The favorable conditions for music making there added impetus to his creativity, particularly with respect to the composition of sacred music for the Catholic court church. His first major work in Dresden was a Mass, the "Missa Sanctae Caeciliae" (c. 1711). Zelenka's music must have impressed the court, because only a few months after his arrival in Dresden his salary was increased to 350 thalers. This placed him among the most highly paid musicians in the "Hofkapelle". Three years later, it was raised to 400 thalers. In 1716, Zelenka continued his education in Vienna under the Habsburg Imperial Kapellmeister Johann Joseph Fux. It is unlikely that he visited Venice as once thought. A Saxon court document of 1715 records a royal cash advance for a trip to Italy Zelenka with his fellow musicians and composers Pierre (Peter) Gabriel Buffardin, Johann Christian Richter and Johann Georg Pisendel. New documents confirming the arrival of the oboist Richter and violinist Pisendel in Italy have now surfaced but neither Zelenka nor Buffardin were travelling with them. Back in Dresden in 1719, he remained there except for an extended stay in Prague in 1722-3, when he conducted the première of one of his major secular works, "Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis conspicua orbi regia Bohemiae Corona" (a melodrama about St. Wenceslas), at the time of the coronation of Charles VI. While in Prague he composed some of his highly original instrumental works, as seen in the autograph of the score of "Concerto à 8 Concertanti" — "Six concerti written in a hurry in Prague in 1723" (ZWV 186, 187, 188, 189). In the early 1720s, Zelenka composed some of his finest works like the "Responsoria pro hebdomada" (ZWV 55) and the "Lamentations" (ZWV 53).