Veni Creator Spiritus, WAB 50 explained

Veni Creator Spiritus
Composer:	Anton Bruckner
Key:	Gregorian mode
Catalogue:	WAB 50
Type:	Motet
Form:	Hymn
Text:	Veni Creator Spiritus
Language:	Latin
Vocal:	Voice(s)
Instrumental:	Organ

Latin: Veni Creator Spiritus ("Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest"), WAB 50, is a motet composed by Anton Bruckner in .

History

The motet was composed in . Bruckner's manuscript is stored in the Schlägl Abbey, where it was retrieved in 1931. The motet was first published in band IV/1, p. 524 of the Göllerich/Auer biography.^[1] It is put in Band XXI/36 of the German: Gesamtausgabe.^[2]

Music

The motet is a harmonisation of the Gregorian hymn Veni Creator Spiritus for voice(s) and organ.

Discography

There is a single recording of Bruckner's Veni Creator Spiritus:

• Jonathan Brown, Ealing Abbey Choir, Anton Bruckner: Sacred Motets – CD: Herald HAVPCD 213, 1997 (transcription for male voice choir a cappella)

Sources

• August Göllerich, Anton Bruckner. Ein Lebens- und Schaffens-Bild, – posthumous edited by Max Auer by G. Bosse, Regensburg, 1932
• Anton Bruckner – Sämtliche Werke, Band XXI: Kleine Kirchenmusikwerke, Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Hans Bauernfeind and Leopold Nowak (Editor), Vienna, 1984/2001
• Cornelis van Zwol, Anton Bruckner 1824–1896 – Leven en werken, uitg. Thoth, Bussum, Netherlands, 2012.

External links

• • Veni Creator Spiritus, WAB 50 Critical discography by Hans Roelofs
• Live-performances of the harmonisation of the Veni Creator Spiritus:
  • Ricardo Luna with the Wiener Madrigalchor at 11:09 of the Benefizkonzert für den Wiener Stephansdom, 6 October 2007
  • At 40:50 of the Männerchorkonzert 'Bruckner im Kremstal' - Pfarrkirche Micheldorf, 17 May 2024.

Notes and References

1. C. van Zwol, p. 708
2. http://www.mwv.at/TextBruckner/Katalog/kirchenmusik.htm Gesamtausgabe – Kleine Kirchenmusikwerke