Ave verum, Op. 2, No. 1 (Edward Elgar)
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- Editor: Jes Wagner (submitted 2016-04-10). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 1.27 MB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- Editor: Brian Marble (submitted 2016-03-10). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 62 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Condensed score.
- Editor: Toby Wardman (submitted 2005-10-25). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 128 kB Copyright: Personal
- Editor: Rod Mather (submitted 2002-05-25). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 50 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Alternative texts included in the score "Jesu, Word of God Incarnate" and "Jesu, Lamb of God, Redeemer". Re-registered as CPDL #12071 on 2006-07-21.
- CPDL #00116: Finale 1998
- Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 1999-01-11). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 91 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: Ave Verum, Op. 2, No. 1
Composer: Edward Elgar
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
with Soprano solo
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Eucharistic song
Language: Latin
Instruments: Organ
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Description: Originally written in 1887 (with Ave Maria and Ave Maris Stella) while Elgar was organist at St George's Church in Worcester as a setting of the Pie Jesu, in memory of William Allen, Worcester attorney for whom Elgar worked as a fifteen-year old. Elgar arranged and orchestrated it as a setting of Ave verum corpus for publication in 1902.
External websites:
- Information about this work from The Edward Elgar Society
- 1973 performance on YouTube (Guildford Cathedral Choir sound archives - Barry Rose)
Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Ave verum corpus.