Cum esset Stephanus (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2025-08-13)  CPDL #86339:     

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-08-13).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 167 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Cum esset Stephanus
Composer: Jacob Handl
Text: Acts 7:55 (Vulgate)
Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SATB.SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1590 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 4, no. 19
Description: Magnificat antiphon for the Feast of St. Stephen.

Original text and translations

Latin text Cum esset Stephanus plenus Spiritu Sancto, intendens in coelum vidit gloriam Dei et ait: Ecce video coelos apertos et Filium hominis stantem a dextris virtutis Dei.

English translation When Stephen was full of the Holy Spirit, looking intently into heaven, he saw the glory of God and said: Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of the power of God.