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Tantum ergo , WAB 42

Composer: Bruckner Anton

Instruments: Mixed chorus Organ

Tags: Motet Sacred hymns Hymn Religious music

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Wikipedia
Tantum ergo ("Let us raise"), WAB 42, is a setting of the hymn Tantum ergo composed by Anton Bruckner in 1846.
Bruckner composed this motet on 9 June 1846 during his stay in St. Florian Abbey. The autograph voice score, without the organ score, is present in the archive of the St. Florian Abbey.
In 1888, Bruckner revised this setting, together with the revision of previous four Tantum ergo. The revised version of the five Tantum ergo was published first by Johann Groß, Innsbruck in 1893.
The 1846 and 1888 versions are put in Band XXI/13 and 38 of the Gesamtausgabe respectively.
The works is scored in D major for SSATB choir and organ. The first setting is 36-bar long. The bars 21-32 are optional. In the 31-bar long revised version 8 bars are removed and a 3-bar Amen is added.
This fifth Tantum ergo is characterised by its marked solemness. After a climax on novo cedat rituit it goes on, diminuendo, to an intimate quasi-Mozartian coda.
The first recording occurred in c. 1931:
There is a single recording of this first version:
A selection among the about 20 recordings: