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Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART – Ave Verum Corpus (1791) – for String Quartet, prepared by David Johnstone

PDF 1 – General Score

PDF 2 – All Individual Parts

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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. The motet was originally scored for SATB choir, string instruments and organ.

Mozart composed the motet in the middle of writing his opera ‘Die Zauberflöte’. He wrote it while visiting his wife Constanze, who was pregnant with their sixth child and staying in the spa Baden bei Wien. Mozart set the 14th century Eucharistic hymn in Latin “Ave verum corpus”. He wrote the motet for Anton Stoll, a friend of his and of Joseph Haydn. Stoll was the musical director of the parish St. Stephan, Baden. The setting was composed to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi; the autograph is dated 17th June 1791. (The Feast of Corpus Christi falls on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday, and in 1791 was observed on June 23rd.).  The composition is only forty-six bars long and is scored for SATB choir, string instruments, and organ. Mozart’s manuscript contains minimal directions, with only a single sotto voce marking at the beginning.

The motet was composed less than six months before Mozart’s death. It foreshadows “aspects of the Requiem such as declamatory gesture and textures; however, the motet expresses the Eucharistic thoughts with simple means, suited for the church choir (in this case string quartet) in a small town.

Franz Liszt made transcriptions of Mozart’s motet for piano solo and for organ, and also quoted Mozart in his fantasie piece Evocation à la Chapelle Sixtine, in versions for piano, organ, orchestra, and piano duet. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky incorporates an orchestration of Liszt’s transcription in his fourth orchestral suite, Mozartiana, Op. 61, a tribute to Mozart’s music.

David Johnstone transposes the piece up a fourth to G Major, and occasionally changing registers of the cello part; for string quartet alone there is perhaps better sound projection like this.

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