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Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2011-07-27).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 31 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Original key.

General Information

Title: Aeterne gratias tibi
Composer: Michael Praetorius
Lyricist: Philipp Melanchthoncreate page

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1611

Description: #121 from the composer's collection Hymnodia Sionia (1611). Praetorius provides two texts for this music, one for the Feast of St. John the Baptist and one for the Feast of the Visitation. This version has the latter text setting.

External websites:

  • Translation at Liturgy, Hymnody, and Pulpit Quarterly Book Review

Original text and translations

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Aeterne gratias tibi
dicamus omnes conditor,
Quod inter hostes plurimos,
Ecclesiam servas tamen.