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Key
  
F major

Form
  
Absoute

Language
  
Latin

Catalogue
  
WAB 21

Text
  
Libera me

Libera me, WAB 21

Composed
  
c. 1843 (c. 1843): Kronstorf

Libera me (Deliver me), WAB 21, is the first of two settings of the absoute Libera me, composed by Anton Bruckner in c. 1843.

Contents

History

Bruckner composed the motet during his stay in Kronstorf. The work was presumably performed at that time.

The original manuscript is lost, but there are two good copies, one made by Max Auer (Kronstorf, 1903). The motet was first published in band I, pp. 243–248 of the Göllerich/Auer biography. It is put in Band XXI/3 of the Gesamtausgabe.

Music

The work is scored in F major for mixed choir and organ. In this youth work, two parts of the responsory are not included: the second "Quando cœli movendi sunt et terra" and the second "Dum véneris iudicáre sǽculum per ignem".

Discography

There are only three recordings of this first setting of Libera me:

  • Joseph Pancik, Prager Kammerchor, Anton Bruckner: Motetten / Choral-Messe – CD: Orfeo C 327 951 A, 1993 (transcription a cappella with repeat of the first verse)
  • Dan-Olof Stenlund, Malmö Kammarkör, Bruckner: Ausgewählte Werke – CD: Malmö Kammarkör MKKCD 051, 2004
  • Thomas Kerbl, Chorvereinigung Bruckner 09, Anton Bruckner: Chöre/Klaviermusik – CD: LIVA 034, 2009

    • References

    Libera me, WAB 21 Wikipedia
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