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Editor: Robert Urmann (submitted 2009-09-03). Score information: A4, 1 page, 134 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: see Drei geistliche Chöre, Op. 37 for a complete edition

Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 1999-07-01). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 36 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

Title: O bone Jesu, Op. 37, No. 1
Work: Drei geistliche Chöre, Op. 37 [Three Sacred Choruses]
Composer: Johannes Brahms

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SSAA

Genre: Sacred, Motet, Antiphon, Canon

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: September 1865; Leipzig / Winterthur: J. Rieter-Biedermann

Description:

External websites:

Scanned score of the first print from Brahms Institute at the University of Music Lübeck (Germany)
Listening guide

Latin text

O bone Jesu, miserere nobis,
quia tu creasti nos,
tu redemisti nos sanguine
tuo pretiosissimo.

English translation Translation supplied by The St. Ann Choir, directed by William Mahrt

O good Jesus, have mercy upon us,
for thou hast created us,
thou hast redeemed us
by thy most precious blood.

German translation

o guter Jesus, erbarm dich unser,
denn du hast uns geschaffen,
du hast uns erlöst
mit deinem kostbarsten Blut.