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Ave verum corpus ("Hail, True Body"), (K. 618), is a motet in D major composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791. It is a setting of the Latin hymn "Ave verum corpus". Mozart wrote it for Anton Stoll, a friend who was the church musician of St. Stephan in Baden bei Wien.
Ave Verum Corpus, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is a Eucharistic chant that we offer in honour of Divine Mercy Sunday and this week's Gospel of Thomas the Apos...
Ave Verum Corpus, K 618, motet (vocal musical setting of a sacred text) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart based on a Roman Catholic eucharistic text. The piece was composed in the summer of 1791, half a year before the composer’s death and eight years after Mozart had last completed a piece of sacred.
What are the lyrics to 'Ave verum corpus'? - Classical Music
Ave verum corpus, K.618 (. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. ) Movements/Sections. 1 motet. Composition Year. 1791 (17 June) Genre Categories. Motets; For mixed chorus, strings, continuo; Scores featuring mixed chorus; [ 48 more...]
Ave verum corpus is another work that Mozart composed in the final year of his life. It was written almost as a payment to a friend – in much the same way that Picasso would give away sketches. Anton Stoll was a chorus master at a small church in Baden, and had often helped Mozart by making travel arrangements for his wife, Constanze.
Toward the end of his life, Mozart wrote one of the most simple and perfect works of his extraordinary career, a setting of the hymn Ave verum corpus. It was written in June of 1791 for Anton Stoll, the choirmaster of the local church in Baden, where his wife Constanze was taking a cure at the spa.
