Asperges me, WAB 4

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Asperges me
Motet by Anton Bruckner
Apă sfinţită by Constantin Dimitrie Stahi
KeyF major
CatalogueWAB 4
FormAntiphon
TextAsperges me
LanguageLatin
Composed1843/1844 (1843/1844): Kronstorf
DedicationCelebration of Asperges
Published1932 (1932): Regensburg
VocalSATB choir
For the two other settings of the same text by the composer, see Two Asperges me, WAB 3.

Asperges me (Thou wilt sprinkle me), WAB 4, is a sacred motet composed by Anton Bruckner. It is a setting of the Latin Asperges me, the antiphon used for the celebration of Asperges.

History

In 1843/1844, Bruckner composed this first setting of Aperges me during his stay in Kronstorf.[1][2] It is not known when it was performed at that time.[1][2]

The work, the original manuscript of which is lost, exists as a transcription by Arthur Bauer. The motet was first published in band III/II, pp. 140-141 of the Göllerich/Auer biography.[1][2] It is put in Band XXI/4 of the Gesamtausgabe.[3]

Music

The work is a setting of 32 bars in F major of the Asperges me for mixed choir a cappella.

According to the Catholic practice, the incipit ("Asperges me") is not composed and has to be intoned by the priest in Gregorian mode before the choir is going on. The score is in two parts. Part 1 (7 bars) begins with "Domine, hysopo" and ends with "dealbabor". Part 2 (18 bars) begins with the remaining of the text, and follows by the doxology ("Gloria Patri") and the repeat in unison of the incipit.Thereafter part 1 has is repeated da capo. Alike the contemporaneous Kronstorfer Messe, the second part of the score contains audacious modulations.[4][2]

Discography

There is a single commercial recording of Bruckner's first Asperges me:

  • Philipp von Steinäcker, Vocalensemble Musica Saeculorum, Bruckner: Pange lingua - Motetten - CD: Fra Bernardo FB 1501271, 2015

References

  1. ^ a b c C. van Zwol, p. 700
  2. ^ a b c d U. Harten, p. 64
  3. ^ Gesamtausgabe - Kleine Kirchenmusikwerke
  4. ^ H. Schäfer, p. 189

Sources

  • August Göllerich, Anton Bruckner. Ein Lebens- und Schaffens-Bild, c. 1922 – posthumous edited by Max Auer by G. Bosse, Regensburg, 1932
  • Hansjürgen Schäfer, Anton Bruckner. Ein Führer durch Leben und Werk. Henschel Verlag, Berlin, 1996. ISBN 3-7618-1590-5
  • Anton Bruckner – Sämtliche Werke, Band XXI: Kleine Kirchenmusikwerke, Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Hans Bauernfeind and Leopold Nowak (Editor), Vienna, 1984/2001
  • Cornelis van Zwol, Anton Bruckner 1824–1896 – Leven en werken, uitg. Thoth, Bussum, Netherlands, 2012. ISBN 978-90-6868-590-9
  • Uwe Harten, Anton Bruckner. Ein Handbuch. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg, 1996. ISBN 3-7017-1030-9.

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