Venite populi (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

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CPDL #13326 (Full score):  

Editor: Diana Thompson (added 2007-01-02).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 202 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: String parts are optional. The organ part below can be used either as a continuo realisation, or as an accompaniment on its own.

• Vocal score:      (A4, 12 pages, 147 kbytes)

• Instrumental parts:  Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello, Organ/continuo

General Information

Title: Venite populi, K.260
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SATB.SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: 2 violins, cello, organ (continuo) OR organ (orchestra reduction)
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Description: This is one of Mozart's few works for double choir, and one of the few settings of this rare and unusual text. It deserves to be better known.

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Original text and translations

Latin text Venite, populi, venite de longe venite, et admiramini gentes. Venite, populi, venite, an alia natio tam grandis, quae habet Deos appropinquantes sibi, sicut Deus noster adest nobis, cujus in ara veram praesentiam contemplamur jugiter per fidem vivam, an alia natio tam grandis? O sors cunctis beatior, O sors sola fidelium, quibus panis fractio et calicis communio est in auxilium. Eja ergo epulemur in azymis veritatis et sinceritatis, eja ergo epulemur et inebriemur vino laetitiae sempiternae; an alia natio tam grandis? Venite, populi, venite.

English translation Come, O peoples, come; come from afar, and marvel, O races. Come, O peoples, come; is there any nation so great that it has its gods so near to it as our God is near to us, whose true presence on his altar we continually contemplate through living faith: is there any nation so great? O fate more blessed than all others, O fate only of the faithful for whom breaking bread and sharing the cup is a help Therefore let us feast on the unleavened bread of truth and sincerity, Let us feast, therefore, and become drunk with wine of eternal joy; is there any nation so great? Come, O peoples, come.