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A quartet I performed in. I won't say which voice I am, just enjoy the performance
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Near the end of his life, Mozart wrote this brief, ethereal motet at the request of a friend who was a schoolmaster in Baden, near Vienna. It was his first sacred work since his unfinished Mass in C minor ten years earlier, and was written to be performed on Good Friday. The text is a simple four-line communion hymn from the Catholic liturgy. In 46 short measures, Mozart transforms the timeless text into a serene testament to the depth of his own spirituality. The motet is glorious, particularly in the final line of text that translates "Be for us a foretaste of the trial of death." Here Mozart achieves a sense of the eternal and infinite that his unfinished Requiem never quite attains. It was composed in June of 1791, barely six months before Mozart's own death.
Text:
Ave verum corpus, natum
de Maria Virgine,
vere passum, immolatum
in cruce pro homine
cuius latus perforatum
fluxit aqua et sanguine:
esto nobis praegustatum
in mortis examine.
Program Notes:
Near the end of his life, Mozart wrote this brief, ethereal motet at the request of a friend who was a schoolmaster in Baden, near Vienna. It was his first sacred work since his unfinished Mass in C minor ten years earlier, and was written to be performed on Good Friday. The text is a simple four-line communion hymn from the Catholic liturgy. In 46 short measures, Mozart transforms the timeless text into a serene testament to the depth of his own spirituality. The motet is glorious, particularly in the final line of text that translates "Be for us a foretaste of the trial of death." Here Mozart achieves a sense of the eternal and infinite that his unfinished Requiem never quite attains. It was composed in June of 1791, barely six months before Mozart's own death.
Text:
Ave verum corpus, natum
de Maria Virgine,
vere passum, immolatum
in cruce pro homine
cuius latus perforatum
fluxit aqua et sanguine:
esto nobis praegustatum
in mortis examine.
Category Music / Classical
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