Music #187 - Mozart Ave Verum Corpus

Ave Verum Corpus

Totaling 3.3 minutes.

Ave verum corpus in D, 
motet for chorus, strings & organ
《圣体颂》- K.618

This setting of the Ave verum corpus text was composed to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi. 

It is only 46 bars long and is scored for SATB choir, stringed instruments, and organ. This motet is sung in a very very soft voice.

Mozart composed this motet while in the middle of writing his opera Die Zauberflöte (Magic Flute), and while visiting his wife Constanze, who was pregnant with their sixth child and staying in a spa near Baden. It was less than six months before Mozart's death. 

       Source: Wikipedia

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Bonus:
* If you would want to sing along - bilingual lyrics
* If you want to sing along with the Vienna Boys Choir - reading SATB score