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by Bible or other Sacred Texts

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Hodie Christus natus est

Language: Latin

Our translations: DUT ENG FIN FRE GER

Hodie Christus natus est
[Hodie]¹ Salvator apparuit,
Hodie in terra canunt angeli,
Laetantur archangeli,
Hodie exultant justi, dicentes:
Gloria in excelsis Deo,
[Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.]¹

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• C. Monteverdi • J. Sweelinck

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Note: in the Gabrieli version, "alleluia" is added at the end of lines 1,2,4, and 7; in the Sweelinck version, "alleluia" is added at the end of line 2, and "Noe!" is added at the end of lines 1 and 4.
¹ Monteverdi: "Alleluia" ; omitted by Sweelinck.

Text Authorship:

by Bible or other Sacred Texts , a medieval paraphrase of Luke 2:11, 13-14 and Psalm 33:1 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Caterina Assandra (1590 - c1618), "Hodie Christus natus est" [ 2 voices and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Eugénie-Emilie Julliette Folville (1870 - 1946), "Hodie, Christus natus", 1886 [ chorus and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Giovanni Gabrieli (1558 - 1613), "Hodie Christus natus est" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Hodie Christus natus est", published 1581 [ three-part boys' chorus a cappella ], from Sacrae Cantiunculae [sung text checked 1 time]
by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Hodie Christus natus est", FP. 152 no. 4 (1952), published 1952 [ chorus a cappella ], from Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël, no. 4, Paris, Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 - 1621), "Hodie Christus natus est", published 1619 [ chorus ], from Cantiones sacrae [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Benjamin Britten.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Researcher for this page: Thomas Jaenicke

This text was added to the website: 2004-03-29
Line count: 7
Word count: 31

Heute ist Christus geboren

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Latin

Heute ist Christus geboren,
heute ist der Heiland erschienen,
heute singen die Engel auf Erden,
Erzengel frohlocken,
heute jubeln die Gerechten:
Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe, Halleluja.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Latin to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in Latin by Bible or other Sacred Texts , a medieval paraphrase of Luke 2:11, 13-14 and Psalm 33:1
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This text was added to the website: 2015-10-17
Line count: 6
Word count: 28