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O salutaris hostia, quae coeli pandis ostium, Bella premunt hostilia, Da robur fer auxilium, uni trinoque Domino sit sempiterna Gloria qui vitam sine termino, Nobis donet in patria.
A. Flégier sets lines 1-4
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Text Authorship:
- by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225? - 1274), no title [author's text checked 1 time 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 Emma Marie Albani, née Lajeunesse (1847 - 1930), "O salutaris", op. 9, published 1990 [ voice and piano ], Éd. du Nouveau Théâtre Musical [sung text not yet checked]
- by Antônio Francisco Braga (1868 - 1945), "O salutaris hostia", Rio de Janeiro: Bevilacqua [sung text checked 1 time]
- by André Caplet (1879 - 1925), "O salutaris hostia", 1919, published 1920 [ three-part women's chorus a cappella ], from Trois chants d'église a capella, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Durand  [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joaquim Torres Delgado de Carvalho (1872 - 1921), "O salutaris hostia", op. 39 [ voice and piano ], Rio de Janeiro: Arthur Napoleão [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Dupré (1886 - 1971), "O salutaris", op. 9 no. 1 [ chorus ], from Quatre Motets, no. 1, motet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ange Flégier (1846 - 1927), "O salutaris hostia", published [1893], lines 1-4 [ bass and piano or organ ], from Vingt mélodies, 2ème volume, no. 19, Éd. Émile Gallet; confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "O Salutaris Hostia", published 1898 [ medium voice and piano or organ ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard de Guide (1909 - 1962), "O salutaris hostia ", op. 14 no. 2 (1944) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), "O salutaris", H 136A (1939), first performed 1943 [ voice, organ and piano (or harp) ], used in the film Cavalcade d'Amour [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Brasílio Itiberê (1896 - 1967), "O salutaris" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis-Emmanuel Jadin (1768 - 1853), "O salutaris" [ two-part chorus ], from Six motets, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Louis-Emmanuel Jadin (1768 - 1853), "O salutaris" [ three-part chorus ], from Six motets, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Edouard Lalo (1823 - 1892), "O Salutaris", op. 34 [ vocal trio or chorus with organ or piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roland de Lassus (1532 - 1594), "O salutaris hostia", published 1582 [ SATTB chorus a cappella ], from Sacrae cantiones quinque vocum, no. 14 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alberto Nepomuceno (1864 - 1920), "O salutaris hostia", 1897, first performed 1899 [ medium voice and orchestra ], Viúva Bevilacqua [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Louis-Étienne-Ernest Rey (1823 - 1909), as Ernest Reyer, "O salutaris hostia ", published 1874 [ soprano or tenor and piano or organ ], (Paris) Berlin, Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), "O salutaris hostia" [ contralto and piano ], from Péchés de vieillesse, Vol XI: Miscellanée de musique vocale, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Pierre de la Rue (c1460 - 1518), "O salutaris hostia" [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Anton Yulyevich Simon (1850 - 1916), "O salutaris", op. 14 no. 6, from Vingt mélodies (Двадцать мелодий), no. 16 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Urmas Sisask (b. 1960), "O salutaris hostia", 1988 [ chorus a cappella ], from Gloria Patri [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Glauco Velasquez (1883 - 1914), "Salutaris", 1902 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Vuillemin (1879 - 1929), "O Salutaris", op. 8 no. 3 (1922) [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
- possibly by Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521) or possibly by Gaspar von Weerbecke (c1445 - c1516), "O salutaris hostia" [ four-part chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "O salutaris", op. 8 [ low voice, violin, violoncello and organ ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Édouard Woolley (1916 - 1991), "O salutaris hostia " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lau Kanen) , "O heilig, heilzaam offerlam", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Thomas A. Gregg) , "O saving sacrifice", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Oi pelastava uhri", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Thomas A. Gregg
This text was added to the website: 2004-03-26
Line count: 8
Word count: 28
O Opferlamm, das Heil uns schenkt, hast aufgetan die Himmelspfort - ein feindlich Toben uns bedrängt; gib Kraft uns, hilf uns immerfort. Dir einem Gott, der ist in drei, ohn Ende Ruhm und Ehre sei. Gib, dass wir schaun Dich unverwandt beim ew’gen Sein im Vaterland.
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Based on:
- a text in Latin by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225? - 1274), no title
This text was added to the website: 2016-09-11
Line count: 8
Word count: 45