Via Crucis (Franz Liszt)

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• (Posted 2019-05-10)  CPDL #54197: 

Contributor: Paolo Pandolfo (submitted 2019-05-10).  Score information: A4, 46 pages, 2.44 MB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Scan from IMSLP of Philipp Wolfrum's edition in Musikalische Werke. Serie V, Band 7 Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1936.

• (Posted 2009-01-31)  CPDL #18852: 

Editor: Jurriaan Grootes (submitted 2009-01-31).   Score information: A4, 16 pages, 269 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Choir part only, with accompaniment cues from the organ version.

Individual movements

6. O crux ave

• (Posted 2014-12-01)  CPDL #33548:        (Sibelius 4)

Editor: Brian Marble (submitted 2014-12-01).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 48 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: 1st O Crux Ave only.

General Information

Title: Via Crucis, S. 53
Composer: Franz Liszt
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, with baritone solo; all vocal parts ad lib.
Genre: Sacred, Unknown

Languages: Latin, German
Instruments: Piano or organ

First published:
Description: Originally conceived for the Stations of the Cross in the roman Colosseum, where a harmonium might be carried in procession, this work was composed much later in multiple versions: organ (with or without voices), piano solo, and piano 4-hands.

External websites:

• Free choir training aids for this work are available at Choralia.
• Via Crucis (Franz Liszt) at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Vexilla Regis and Stabat Mater.

Latin and German text 1. Vexilla Regis prodeunt: Fulget Crucis mysterium, Qua vita mortem pertulit, Et morte vitam protulit. 3. Impleti sunt quae concinit David fideli carmine, Dicendo nationibus: Regnavit a ligno Deus. Amen. 6. O crux ave, spes unica, hoc passionis tempore (vel mundi salus et gloria) Piis adauge gratiam, Reisque dele crimina. Amen. ===I. Jesus wird zum Tode verdammt.=== Innocens ego sum a sanguine justis hujus. ===II. Jesus trägt sein Kreuz.=== Ave, ave crux. ===III. Jesus fällt zum ersten Mal.=== Jesus cadit. Stabat Mater dolorosa juxta crucem lacrymosa, dum pendebat filius. ===IV. Jesus begegnet seiner heiligen Mutter.=== ===V. Simon von Kyrene hilft Jesus das Kreuz tragen.=== ===VI. Sancta Veronica.=== O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden, Voll Schmerz und voller Hohn, O Haupt, zum Spott gebunden Mit einer Dornenkron’, O Haupt, sonst schön gezieret Mit höchster Ehr’ und Zier, Jetzt aber höchst schimpfieret; Gegrüßet sei’st du mir! ===VII. Jesus fällt zum zweiten Mal.=== ===VIII. Die Frauen von Jerusalem.=== Nolite flere super me, sed super vos ipsas flete et super filios vestros. ===IX. Jesus fällt zum dritten Mal.=== ===X. Jesus wird entkleidet.=== ===XI. Jesus wird ans Kreuz geschlagen.=== Crucifige! ===XII. Jesus stirbt am Kreuze.=== Eli, Eli, lamma Sabacthani In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum. Consummatum est. O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid, Ist das nicht zu beklagen? Gott des Vaters einigs Kind wird ins Grab getragen. ===XIII. Jesus wird vom Kreuz genommen.=== ===XIV. Jesus wird ins Grab gelegt.=== Ave crux, spes unica, mundi salus et gloria Auge piis justitiam Reisque dona veniam! Amen. Ave crux.

English translation The royal banners forward go; The cross shines forth in mystic glow Where He in flesh, our flesh who made, our sentence bore, our ransom paid; Fulfilled is all that David told In true prophetic song of old; Amidst the nations, God, saith he, Hath reigned and triumphed from the tree. O Cross, our one reliance, hail! [During this Passiontide (or Salvation and Glory of the world,)] Give new virtue to the saint And pardon to the penitent. Amen. Translation by John Mason Neale - his unaltered 6th verse (1851) appears at the end of the work First station: Jesus is condemned to death "I am innocent of this just man's blood." Second station: Jesus bears his cross Hail, hail Cross. Third station: Jesus falls the first time Jesus has fallen! At the Cross, her station keeping Stood the mournful mother weeping, Where He hung, the dying Lord. Translation by Edward Caswall Fourth station: Jesus greets his holy mother Fifth station: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the cross Sixth station: Saint Veronica O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down, Now scornfully surrounded with thorns, Thine only crown; O sacred Head, what glory, what bliss till now was Thine! Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call Thee mine. Seventh station: Jesus falls the second time Eighth station: The women of Jerusalem "Weep not for me, but for yourselves and your children" Ninth station: Jesus falls the third time Tenth station: Jesus is stripped Eleventh station: Jesus is nailed to the cross "Crucify him!" Twelfth station: Jesus dies on the cross "Into thy hands I commend my spirit" "It is achieved" O darkest woe! Ye tears, forth flow! Has earth so sad a wonder? God the Father's only Son Now lies buried yonder. Translation by Catherine Winkworth Thirteenth station: Jesus is taken down from the cross Fourteenth station: Jesus is entombed O Cross, our one reliance, hail! So may thy power with us avail To give new virtue to the saint And pardon to the penitent. Amen. Translation by John Mason Neale, 1851