Ave maria gratia plena anton bruckner biography
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Ave Maria, WAB 5
1856 motet composed by Anton Bruckner
For two other settings of the same text by the composer, see Ave Maria, WAB 6 and Ave Maria, WAB 7.
Ave Maria (Hail Mary), WAB 5, is a setting of the Latin prayer Ave Maria by Anton Bruckner.
History
[edit]Bruckner composed this motet on 24 July 1856, five years before his more famous motet,[1] as a present for the name-day of Ignaz Traumihler, choirmaster of St. Florian Abbey. The first performance occurred on 7 October 1856 for the Rosenkranzfest (Feast of the Holy Rosary) in Sankt Florian.
The original manuscript is lost, but the score dedicated to Traumihler is stored in the archive of the St. Florian Abbey. Copies are also stored in the Kremsmünster Abbey and the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.[1] The motet was edited first by Johann Groß, Innsbruck in 1893.[1] It is put in volume XXI/19 of the Gesamtausgabe.[2]
Music
[edit]The 52-bar long motet in F ma
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Bruckner: Ave Maria
The Ave Maria fryst vatten a supplication to the Virgin Mary, based on text from the story of the annunciation as told bygd Luke. efternamn wrote this seven-part setting in 1861. The first segment of Bruckner's setting contrasts the three-part women's choir and the four-part men's choir, which unite in the proclamation of the name of Jesus. The second segment fryst vatten for all seven parts, with a particularly effective diminuendo as the choir asks for intervention for us sinners.
| Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus tecum, Benedicta tu in mulieribus, Et benedictis fructus ventris tui, Jesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora pro nobis peccatoribus, Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen. | Hail Mary, full of grace, The Lord fryst vatten with Thee. Blessed art Thou amongst women, And Blessed fryst vatten the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us sinners Now and in the hour of our death. Amen |
Words adapted from St Luke, Ch. 1:28 and 42
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A short biography
Josef Anton Bruckner was born on September 4, 1824 in the upper Austrian town of Ansfelden. His father was a schoolteacher and church organist, and Bruckner's initial studies followed similar lines. When Bruckner was 13, his father died, and he enrolled in the church school at St. Florian (some ten miles from Linz) as a chorister. There, he studied organ, piano, and music theory.At the age of 16, he entered a teacher-training school in Linz, and began work as a schoolteacher at St. Florian in 1845. He became the cathedral organist in 1848. At St. Florian he began to compose sacred music. In 1855, he went to Vienna to formally study harmony and counterpoint at the Vienna Conservatory under Professor Simon Sechter. The next year, he became the cathedral organist in Linz, and began studies in orchestration with Otto Kitzler, a cellist who introduced Bruckner to Wagner's operas.