O Du liebes Jesu-Kind

O Du liebes Jesu-Kind
Motet by Anton Bruckner
Massacre des innocents by Nicolas Poussin
Key	F major
Catalogue	WAB 145
Occasion	Holy Innocents' Day
Language	German
Composed	c. 1845 (c. 1845): St. Florian
Published	1932 (1932): Regensburg
Vocal	Soloist
Instrumental	Organ

O Du liebes Jesu-Kind (O, You dear Child Jesus), WAB 145, is the first of two motets of Anton Bruckner's St. Florian period, which is of uncertain authorship. If Bruckner was the composer, he composed it presumably in 1845–46.^[1]

History

If Bruckner composed the motet attributed to him, he wrote it presumably in 1845–46 during his stay in St. Florian Abbey. The work was intended for the celebration of Holy Innocents' Day, remembering the Massacre of the Innocents.

The motet was first published in band II/2, p. 13 of the Göllerich/Auer biography. The last two bars, which are on the back of the manuscript together with a transcription of a Christmas carol, were missing in this first publication.^[1] The work appears in Band XXI/10 of the Gesamtausgabe.^[2]

Text

O Du liebes Jesu Kind,
Lass Dich vielmals grüßen!
Alle Kinder, die hier sind,
Fallen Dir zu Füßen.
All um Deine Liebe bitten,
Die so viel für uns gelitten.
Schenk uns Deine Liebe!

O, You dear Child Jesus
Let us greet You profusely!
All children here present
Are kneeling down before you.
All pray for Your love,
That suffered for us so much.
Grant us Your love!

Music

The work of 16-bar in F major is scored for soloist and organ.

Discography

Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Werner Kaufmann (organ), Music of the St. Florian Period (Jürgen Jürgens) - LP: Jerusalem Records ATD 8503, 1984; transferred to CD BSVD-0109, 2011
Sigrid Hagmüller (alto), Rupert Gottfried Frieberger (organ), Anton Bruckner – Oberösterreichische Kirchenmusik - CD: Fabian Records CD 5112, 1995
Ludmila Kuznetzova (mezzosoprano), Ludmila Golub (organ), Bruckner: Masses and Songs (Valeri Poliansky) - CD: Chandos CHAN 9863, 1998
Barbara Schreiner (alto), Rupert Gottfried Frieberger (organ), Anton Bruckner Kirchenmusikalische Werke - CD: Fabian Records CD 5115, c. 2008
Robert Holzer (Bass), Philipp Sonntag (organ), Anton Bruckner - Lieder|Magnificat - CD: Brucknerhaus LIVA 046, 2011

References

^ ^a ^b C. van Zwol, p. 701.
^ Gesamtausgabe - Kleine Kirchenmusikwerke

Sources

August Göllerich, Anton Bruckner. Ein Lebens- und Schaffens-Bild, c. 1922 – posthumous edited by Max Auer by G. Bosse, Regensburg, 1932
Anton Bruckner – Sämtliche Werke, Band XXI: Kleine Kirchenmusikwerke, Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Hans Bauernfeind and Leopold Nowak (Editor), Vienna, 1984/2001
Cornelis van Zwol, Anton Bruckner 1824–1896 – Leven en werken, uitg. Thoth, Bussum, Netherlands, 2012. ISBN 978-90-6868-590-9

External links

O du liebes Jesu-Kind, WAB 145: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
O du liebes Jesu Kind F-Dur, WAB 145 Critical discography by Hans Roelofs (in German)

Anton Bruckner

List of compositions

Symphonies

Symphonies (1863–1896)
Symphony in F minor (1863)
No. 1 in C minor (1866/1891)
Symphony in D minor (1869)
No. 2 in C minor (1872/1877)
No. 3 in D minor (1873/1877/1889)
No. 4 in E♭ major (Romantic; 1874/1878–1880/1888)
No. 5 in B♭ major (1876)
No. 6 in A major (1881)
No. 7 in E major (1883)
No. 8 in C minor (1887/1890)
No. 9 in D minor (1896) (unfinished)

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Overture in G minor (1862–1863)
March in E-flat major (1865)
Symphonisches Präludium (1876)

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Cantatas	Psalm settings (1852–1892) Psalm 114 (1852) Magnificat (1852) Psalm 22 (c. 1852) Psalm 146 (c. 1856) Festive Cantata: Preiset den Herrn (1862) Psalm 112 (1863) Te Deum (1881–1884) Psalm 150 (1892)
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