Ego sum panis vivus (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2025-07-25)  CPDL #86078:     

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-07-25).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 170 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Ego sum panis vivus
Composer: Jacob Handl
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Text: John 6:51-52
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Eucharistic song

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1587 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 3, no. 17
Description: Motet for Corpus Christi.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Ego sum panis vivus.

Latin text Ego sum panis vivus, qui de coelo descendi. Si quis manducaverit ex hoc pane, vivet in aeternum: et panis quem ego dabo, caro mea est pro mundi vita.

English translation I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.