Biduo vivens (Leonhard Paminger)

Music files

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-09-23). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 71 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

Title: Biduo vivens
Composer: Leonhard Paminger
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Antiphon

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1573 in Primus tomus ecclesiasticarum cantionum, no. 10
Description: Antiphon to the second Psalm at Second Vespers on the Feast of St. Andrew.

Latin text

Biduo vivens pendebat in cruce
pro Christi nomine beatus Andreas,
et docebat populum.

English translation

For two days, living, the blessed Andrew hung upon the cross
for the name of Christ,
and he taught the people.