Sprevit hic mundi (Thomas Stoltzer)
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- Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2013-07-14). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 76 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Original key; note values halved. Editorial accidentals added.
General Information
Title: Sprevit hic mundi
Composer: Thomas Stoltzer
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: ATBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
Published: Sacrorum hymnorum, Book I (Wittenberg, 1542)
Description: This setting of the fourth verse of the hymn "Martyris Christi colimus" (for the feast of St. Lawrence) is #89 in Georg Rhau's Sacrorum hymnorum liber primus.
Original text and translations
Latin text
Sprevit hic mundi peritura dona,
fert opem nudis, alimenta claudis,
dividit nummos miseris catervis
corde flagranti.