Form Marian Antiphon | Catalogue WAB 8 Text Ave Regina caelorum | |
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Composed c. 1886 (c. 1886): Vienna |
Ave Regina caelorum (Hail, Queen of Heaven), WAB 8, is a motet composed by Anton Bruckner in c. 1886 .
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History
The motet was composed in c. 1886 on request of Ferdinand Schölzig, Master of novices at the Klosterneuburg Abbey. The Marian antiphon was performed first on 25 March 1886 (Feast of the Annunciation).
Bruckner's manuscript is stored in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. The motet was first published in 1910 in the third yearbook of the Klosterneuburg Abbey. It has been re-edited by Wöss in 1921 together with the Zur Vermählungsfeier, WAB 54. It is put in Band XXI/36 of the Gesamtausgabe.
Music
The motet is a harmonisation of the Gregorian antiphon Ave Regina caelorum for voice(s) and organ.
Selected discography
A selection among the about seven recordings of Bruckner's Ave Regina caelorum: