Ave verum corpus
Mozart's short motet of 1791, for 4 singers, as he wrote the voices: slow, soft and smooth, in Latin. The string introduction, interlude and ending are left out (the interlude becomes a bar's rest).
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The first verse
Words: a medieval (13th-century) Eucharistic hymnTune: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, K. 618 (1791)
Ave, ave,verum corpus,natum de Maria virgine,vere passum immolatumin cruce pro homine.
About Ave verum corpus
Ave verum corpus is a short motet Mozart wrote in 1791, the last year of his life, catalogued as K. 618, setting a medieval Latin hymn. He marked it Adagio and sotto voce, "under the voice": slow, and soft all the way through, without one loud note. Our arrangement is read from the 1880 Breitkopf & Härtel edition of Mozart's works, in D as he wrote it, with his own four voice parts and the Latin words. The strings' introduction and ending are left out, and their short interlude becomes a bar's rest. This is for 4 singers only, as the chords need all four of Mozart's voices.
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