In principio creavit Deus (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2025-06-23)  CPDL #85586:     

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-06-23).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 154 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

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Title: In principio creavit Deus
Composer: Jacob Handl
Text: Genesis 1:1-2, 31 & 2:7
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1586 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 1, no. 99
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Original text and translations

Latin text In principio creavit Deus coelum et terram, et spiritus Domini ferebatur super aquas. Et vidit Deus cuncta quae fecerat, et erant valde bona. Formavit igitur Dominus hominem de limo terrae, et inspiravit in faciem eius spiraculum vitae, et factus est homo in animam viventem.

English translation In the beginning God created heaven and earth, and the Spirit of the Lord moved over the waters. And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.