• Source: Iam lucis orto sidere, WAB 18

    • Iam lucis orto sidere (Now that the daylight fills the sky), WAB 18, is a motet composed by Anton Bruckner in 1868. The work is also known as In S. Angelum custodem (In the custody of the holy angel). Bruckner revised the composition in 1886.


    History


    Bruckner composed this motet in the summer of 1868 for the Schutzengelbruderschaft ("Guardian angel confraternity") of Wilhering Abbey. Bruckner dedicated it to Adolf Dorfer, the abbot of the abbey. Bruckner set the music on the text written by Robert Riepl, one of the priests working at the abbey. The motet was performed in the same year in the abbey.
    Riepl's text is an adaptation of the text used by Orlande de Lassus. Bruckner's original manuscript, which was stored in the abbey, is lost. A copy of it is stored in the archive of the Kremsmünster Abbey and two other copies are found in the Austrian National Library. The motet was published in 1868 by the Wilhering Abbey.
    In 1886, Bruckner made a new version of the motet for men's choir, which was published in the journal An den schönen blauen Donau, volume 1, no. 8, p. 240, F. Mamroth, Vienna.
    The Gesamtausgabe includes two settings of the 1868 version in volume XXI/24, and the 1886 setting in volume XXI/35.


    Music


    The first version in Phrygian mode, which Bruckner composed in 1868, is 24-bar long. Two settings are extant: a first with all eight verses of Riepl's text for SATB choir a cappella, and a second with only one verse of a different text for SATB choir and organ. The motet is a simple, modally inspired piece and homophonic throughout.
    A new version of the motet in G minor, which Bruckner composed in 1886, uses verses 1, 2, 7 and 8 of Riepl's text and is set for TTBB choir a cappella.


    = Text of the first setting (Robert Riepl)

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    = Text of the second setting

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    Note: In addition to the Latin text, there is also a German version based on a text by Margarete Hemleben entitled Du Herr der Herren, in a presumably Protestant-oriented hymnal.

    A performance can be heard on YouTube: Choir Nomen Nescio Arnhem – Du Herr der Herren


    Selected discography


    The first recording occurred in 1976:

    Mathias Breitschaft, Limburger Domsingknaben, Bruckner: 9 Motets/Palestrina: 8 Motets – LP: Carus FSM 53118 (1st verse of the 1st setting)


    = 1868 version

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    First setting


    A few other recordings, all with deviations from the score:

    Balduin Sulzer, Chor des Musikgymnasiums Linz, Musik aus der Stifterstraße – LP: Extempore AD-80.01/2, 1980 (verses 1, 2 & 3)
    Robert Jones, Choir of St. Bride's Church, Bruckner: Motets – CD: Naxos 8.550956, 1994 (all 8 verses)
    Lionel Sow, Choeur de Filles Caecilia & Maîtrise des Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Christophe de Javel, Johannes Brahms – Anton Bruckner Jardins secrets – CD: Studio SM Collection Blanche D3029, 2004 (verses 1, 2 & 3)


    Second setting


    Only one recording :

    Balduin Sulzer, Mozart Chor Linz, Bruckner – CD: AtemMusik Records ATMU 97001, 1997 (with brass accompaniment)


    = 1886 version

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    There are two recordings of this version:

    Duncan Ferguson, Choir of St. Mary's Cathedral of Edinburgh, Bruckner: Motets – CD: Delphian Records DCD34071, 2010
    Matthias Giesen, Schola Floriana, Kirchenmusik im Bruckner-Ort Ansfelden – CD: Weinberg Records SW 010497-2, 2016 (strophes 1 & 2)


    References




    Sources


    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
    Crawford Howie, Anton Bruckner – A documentary biography, online revised edition


    External links


    Iam lucis orto sidere, WAB 18: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
    Free scores for Iam lucis orto sidere, WAB 18 in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki) - 2nd setting
    In S. Angelum custodem, WAB 18 Critical discography by Hans Roelofs (in German)
    Can be heard on TouTube:
    Iam lucis orto sidere by Ricardo Luna with the Wiener Madrigalchor
    Iam lucis orto sidere by Der junge Chor der Liederblüte of Oberweyer (2015) – third setting of the motet

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