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"Ave Verum Corpu"s associates you of God, Universe beyond the religion?

2006-10-26 21:27:38 · 3 answers · asked by soft 1 in Arts & Humanities Performing Arts

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AVE VERUM CORPUS is one of the hallmarks of Mozart’s music is its simplicity, which the pianist Artur Schnabel famously characterized as “too simple for children and too difficult for adults.” Nowhere is this more evident than in his exquisite setting of the liturgical text Ave verum corpus. Mozart completed this short choral work (only 46 measures total) on June 17, 1791 and it was first presented as a Eucharistic hymn in Baden at the Feast of Corpus Christi that year. Mozart dedicated the work to his friend, Anton Stoll, who was chorus master of the parish church in Baden, where Mozart was visiting with his wife Constanze.

The simplicity of the work may have its roots in practicality; the singers in Stoll’s parish choir were probably not first-rate musicians, and thus Mozart wrote an accessible piece of music they could learn quickly and easily. Or perhaps the plain language of the text itself suggested a more basic approach. The orchestra provides the barest introduction and functions mostly as a support to the chorus, which presents the text in a manner designed to focus on the words set like jewels into shining harmonic phrases.
The original text of Ave verum corpus is based on a poem found in a 14th century manuscript from Reichenau, Switzerland. It praises the Catholic belief in transubstantiation, in which the boy and blood of Jesus are transformed into the bread and wine of the Eucharist, and reaffirms Catholic concepts of redemptive power of suffering.

2006-10-26 21:54:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The site on the Internet to find

2006-10-27 04:49:08 · answer #2 · answered by dricqejide d 2 · 0 0

"Toy Symphony". :D

2006-10-29 17:46:32 · answer #3 · answered by ♪寿司人♫ 3 · 0 0

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