Venite populi (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

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• (Posted 2007-01-02)  CPDL #13326:  (Full score):   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 202 kB   

• Vocal score:     (A4, 12 pages, 147 kbytes)

• Instrumental parts: Violin 1:  , Violin 2:  , Violoncello:  , Organ/continuo:  

Editor: Diana Thompson (submitted 2007-01-02).   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: String parts are optional. The organ part can be used either as a continuo realisation, or as an accompaniment on its own.

General Information

Title: Venite populi, K.260
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SATB.SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Eucharistic song

Language: Latin
Instruments: 2 violins, cello, organ (continuo) OR organ (orchestra reduction)

First published:
Description: This is one of Mozart's few works for double choir, and one of the few settings of this rare and unusual text. It deserves to be better known.

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• Free choir training aids for this work are available at Choralia.

Original text and translations

Latin text Venite, populi, venite de longe venite, et admiramini gentes. Venite, populi, venite, an alia natio tam grandis, quae habet Deos appropinquantes sibi, sicut Deus noster adest nobis, cujus in ara veram praesentiam contemplamur jugiter per fidem vivam, an alia natio tam grandis? O sors cunctis beatior, O sors sola fidelium, quibus panis fractio et calicis communio est in auxilium. Eja ergo epulemur in azymis veritatis et sinceritatis, eja ergo epulemur et inebriemur vino laetitiae sempiternae; an alia natio tam grandis? Venite, populi, venite.

German translation Kommt, Völker, kommt, von weither kommt, und wundert euch, Stämme. Kommt, Völker, kommt, ob es eine andere so große Nation gibt, die Götter hat, die sich ihr so nahen, wie unser Gott uns nahe ist, dessen wahrhafte Gegenwart auf dem Altar wir immerfort durch lebendigen Glauben betrachten, ob eine andere Nation so groß ist? O Los, seliger als alle, O einzigartiges Los der Gläubigen, denen die Brechung des Brotes und die Gemeinschaft des Kelches als Hilfe dient. Wohlan denn, laßt uns schmausen bei den ungesäuerten Broten der Wahrheit und Rechtschaffenheit, wohlan denn, laßt uns schmausen und trunken werden am Wein immerwährender Freude; ob eine andere Nation so groß ist? Kommt, Völker, kommt.

English translation Come, O peoples, come; come from afar, and marvel, O races. Come, O peoples, come; is there any nation so great that it has its gods so near to it as our God is near to us, whose true presence on his altar we continually contemplate through living faith: is there any nation so great? O fate more blessed than all others, O fate only of the faithful for whom breaking bread and sharing the cup is a help Therefore let us feast on the unleavened bread of truth and sincerity, Let us feast, therefore, and become drunk with wine of eternal joy; is there any nation so great? Come, O peoples, come.

Slovenian translation Pridite, ljudstva, pridite, pridite od daleč, in se čudite, rodovi! Pridite, ljudstva, pridite, ali je kak drug narod tako velik, da bi si imel bogove tako blizu, kakor je blizu nam naš Bog, čigar resnično navzočnost na oltarju z živo vero nenehno zremo, ali je kak drug narod tako velik? O, od vseh srečnejši delež, o edini delež vernikov, ki jim je lomljenje kruha in udeležba pri kelihu v pomoč. Dajmo, gostimo se torej z opresniki resnice in iskrenosti, dajmo, gostimo se torej in se napijmo vina večnega veselja. Ali je kak drug narod tako velik? Pridite, ljudstva, pridite!