Clementissime (Cristóbal de Morales)

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• CPDL #11001: Capella

Editor: Michael Wendel (submitted 2006-02-18).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 145 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: © Michael Wendel 2005, This edition may be freely duplicated, distributed, performed or recorded for non-profit performance or use.

General Information

Title: Clementissime
Composer: Cristóbal de Morales

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1546

Description: No, 2 of 20 motets published in 1546 in Venice by Antonio Gardano. (facsimile from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich (4° Mus.pr. 42/3))
Motet dedicated to St Aegidus, i.e. St Giles. He is thought to have been a Greek aristocrat who went to the South of France and established himself as a hermit in about A.D. 683 in the forests at the mouth of the River Rhône, where his reputation for sanctity led the Benedictines, in the 11th century, to build the monastery of St. Gilles du Gard on the pilgrimage route from Arles to St. James of Compostela in the north of Spain, and perhaps this Spanish connection may explain how Morales came to be setting a text addressed to him.

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