Alme patris fili Iesu (Teodoro Riccio)

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(Posted 2025-09-28) CPDL #86912:

Editor: Gerhard Weydt (submitted 2025-09-28). Score information: A4, 9 pages, 223 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a minor third, better suited for mixed choir.

(Posted 2025-09-28) CPDL #86911:

Editor: Gerhard Weydt (submitted 2025-09-28). Score information: A4, 9 pages, 614 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a fourth because of the chiavette used. PDF file contains full score and parts.

(Posted 2025-09-28) CPDL #86910:

Editor: Gerhard Weydt (submitted 2025-09-28). Score information: A4, 9 pages, 222 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original pitch. PDF file contains full score and parts.

General Information

Title: Alme patris fili Iesu
Composer: Teodoro Riccio
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1580 in Secundus liber Sacrarum Cantionum, no. 13-14
Description: The text is a Lutheran variant of Alma Redemptoris Mater.

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Alme patris fili Iesus,
qui pervia coeli porta manens,
& stella maris,
succurre cadenti
surgere qui curas populum.

Virgo peperit te,
natura mirante,
Deum sanctum genitorem,
virgo prius sic posterius,
Gabrielis ab ore
sumens illud ave,
peccatorum miserere.

German translation

Erhabener Sohn des Vaters, Jesus,
der du die immer offene Pforte des Himmels bleibst
und der Stern des Meeres,
hilf dem Gefallenen sich zu erheben,
du der sich um sein Volk kümmert.

Eine Jungfrau gebar dich,
zum Staunen der Natur,
den heiligen Schöpfergott,
eine Jungfrau vorher so wie nachher,
die aus Gabriels Mund
jenes „Ave“ angenommen hat,
erbarme dich der Sünder.

Translation by Gerhard Weydt

English translation

Sublime son of the Father, jesus,
who remains the ever open gate of heaven
and the star of the sea,
help the fallen to rise,
you who care of your people.

A virgin bore you,
to the amazement of nature,
the holy creator god,
a virgin before as well as thereafter,
that accepted from the mouth of Gabriel
that “Ave”,
have mercy of the sinners.