Ave verum, Op. 2, No. 1 (Edward Elgar)

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• CPDL #10009:

Editor: Toby Wardman (added 2005-10-25).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 128 kbytes   Copyright: Free

• CPDL #3607: PDF file.

Editor: Rod Mather (added 2002-05-25).   Score information: A4, 3 pages   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Click on "Music Library" link, then "Anthems - Motets" to find score (listed alphabetically by title). Alternative texts included in the score "Jesu, Word of God Incarnate" and "Jesu, Lamb of God, Redeemer." Re-registered as CPDL #12071 on 2006-07-21.

• CPDL #116: Finale 1998

Editor: Rafael Ornes (added 1999-01-11).   Score information: 96 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Ave Verum, Op. 2, No. 1
Composer: Edward Elgar

Number of voices: 4vv  Voicing: SATB
Soloists: S
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: Organ
Published:

Description: Originally written in 1887 (with Ave Maria and Ave Maris Stella) while Elgar was organist at St George's Church in Worcester as a setting of the Pie Jesu, in memory of William Allen, Worcester attorney for whom Elgar worked as a fifteen-year old. Elgar arranged and orchestrated it as a setting of Ave verum corpus for publication in 1902.

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• Information about this work from The Edward Elgar Society

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Ave verum corpus.

NB. Elgar uses extra text to that of Mozart.

Latin

Ave verum corpus natum

ex Maria Virgine,

vere passum, immolatum

in cruce pro homine,

cujus latus perforatum

vero fluxit et sanguine,

esto nobis praegustatum

mortis in examine.

O clemens, O pie,

O dulcis Jesu, Fili Mariae.

English 1

Jesu, Word of God Incarnate,

of the virgin Mary born,

On the cross thy sacred body

for us men with nails was torn

Cleanse us, by thy blood and water

Streaming from thy pierced side;

Feed us with thy body broken,

Now in death's agony!

O Jesu, hear us Son of Mary.

English 2

Jesu, Lamb of God, Redeemer,

born the virgin Mary's Son,

who upon the cross a victim

hast man's salvation won.

From whose side, which man had pierced

flow'd the water and the blood,

by thy sacred body broken,

Be in life and death our food.

O Jesu, be in life and death our food