| Tantum ergo | |
| Key: | B-flat major |
| Catalogue: | WAB 44 |
| Type: | Motet |
| Form: | Hymn |
| Text: | Tantum ergo |
| Language: | Latin |
| Vocal: | choir |
| Instrumental: | 2 violins, 2 trumpets, organ |
("Let us raise"), WAB 44, is the last of eight settings of the hymn Tantum ergo composed by Anton Bruckner in .
Bruckner composed the motet in during his stay in St. Florian Abbey. The original manuscript is lost. An autograph voice score is stored in the archive of the abbey.[1]
The motet was first published in band II/2, pp. 256–258 of the Göllerich/Auer biography.[1] It is put in Band XXI/18 of the German: Gesamtausgabe.[2]
The work of 29 bars in B-flat major, as edited in the current Gesamtausgabe,[2] is scored for choir, 2 violins, 2 trumpets and organ.[1]
On 25 June 2017 a new edition of the score by Cohrs, prepared for the German: Anton Bruckner Urtext Gesamtausgabe,[3] with "reconstructed parts " of viola, cello and contrabass, and adding of timpani has been premiered by Łukasz Borowicz with the RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.[4]
There are only three recordings of this last setting of Tantum ergo: