Classical Composer: | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus |
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Lyricist: | Anonymous |
Work: | Ave verum corpus, K. 618 |
Year Composed: | 1791 |
Instrumentation: | SATB, str orch, org |
Publishers: |
Universal Edition Edwin F. Kalmus Edition Kunzelmann Sikorski Chester Music and Novello & Co. Moeseler Verlag Bärenreiter Verlag Breitkopf & Härtel Johann Andre Oxford University Press |
Duration: | 00:03:00 |
Period: | Classical (1750-1830) |
Work Category: | Choral - Sacred |
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The setting of the Ave verum, K. 618, belongs to the last summer of Mozart's life and was written in Baden, where his wife was taking the waters. It was composed for the celebration of the Feast of Corpus Christi and designed for his friend Anton Stoll, a schoolmaster with responsibility for a church choir. The music, in its simple clarity, represents a more popular and less formal type of church music, rather in the spirit of those Josephine reforms to which Mozart had earlier taken such exception in Salzburg.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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