Herz Jesu-Lied

Herz Jesu-Lied
Motet by Anton Bruckner
Sacred Heart, Peterskirche, Vienna
Key	B-flat major
Catalogue	WAB 144
Language	German
Composed	c. 1846 (c. 1846): St. Florian
Published	1932 (1932): Regensburg
Vocal	SATB choir
Instrumental	Organ

Herz Jesu-Lied ("Song of the Heart of Jesus"), WAB 144, is the second of two motets of Anton Bruckner's St. Florian period, which is of uncertain authorship. If Bruckner was the composer, it was composed presumably in 1845-1846.^[1]

History

If Bruckner was the composer, he composed the motet in 1845–46 during his stay in St. Florian Abbey. The text is a hymn to the Sacred Heart.

The motet was first published in band II/2, pp. 11–12 of the Göllerich/Auer biography.^[1] The work is put in Band XXI/11 of the Gesamtausgabe.^[2]

Text

Aus allen Herzen Eines,
stillt aller Herzen Leid,
aus allen Herzen Eines
ist aller Herzen Freud.
Das Herz im Sakramente,
dies Herz in Fleisch und Blut,
dies Gottes Herz, ach kennte
die Welt dies höchste Gut!

Of all hearts One
Stills the pain of all hearts,
Of all hearts One
Is the delight of all hearts.
The Heart in the Sacrament,
This Heart of Flesh and Blood,
This God's Heart, oh, knew
the world this highest good!

Music

The work of 24-bar in B-flat major, which is scored for mixed choir and organ, contains two short passages for tenor and bass soloists, and soprano soloist, respectively, and ends with an organ postlude.^[1]

Discography

There are only 2 recordings:

Dan-Olof Stenlund, Malmö Kammarkör, Bruckner: Ausgewählte Werke – CD: Malmö Kammarkör MKKCD 051, 2004
Thomas Kerbl, Chorvereinigung Bruckner 2011, Anton Bruckner: Lieder / Magnificat – CD: LIVA 046, 2011

References

^ ^a ^b ^c 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

Herz Jesu-Lied, WAB 144: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Herz Jesu-Lied B-Dur, WAB 144 (um 1845/46?) Critical discography by Hans Roelofs (in German)
Live performances of the motet
- Ó Jézus éltem fénye by Márta Bálint conducting the Érsekcsanádi Összhang Kórus (in Hungarian)
- Ó, Jézus éltem fénye by Bettina Torgyik conducting the Choir of the Újpest Baptist Church, Budapest (16 April 2017) (in Hungarian) - with additional string accompaniment

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)

Other orchestral

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

Sacred works

Masses	Masses (1842–1868) Windhaager Messe (1842) Kronstorfer Messe (1843) Messe für den Gründonnerstag (1844–1845) Requiem in D minor (1849) Missa solemnis (1854) Mass No. 1 in D minor (1864) Mass No. 2 in E minor (1866/1882) Mass No. 3 in F minor (1868/1883/1893)
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)
Motets	Motets (c. 1835–1892) Pange lingua (c. 1835/1891) Libera me (c. 1843) Asperges me (1843–1844) Two Asperges me (1844–1845) Tantum ergo (1845) Tantum ergo (1845–1846) Dir, Herr, dir will ich mich ergeben (c. 1845) O Du liebes Jesu-Kind (1845–1846) Herz Jesu-Lied (1845–1846) Four Tantum ergo (1846/1888) Tantum ergo (1846/1888) In jener letzten der Nächte (c. 1848) Two Totenlieder (1852) Libera me (1854) Tantum ergo (c. 1854) Ave Maria (1856) Ave Maria (1861) Afferentur regi (1861) Pange lingua (1868) Inveni David (1868) Iam lucis orto sidere (1868/1886) Locus iste (1869) Christus factus est (1873) Tota pulchra es (1878) Os justi (1879) Ave Maria (1882) Christus factus est (1884) Salvum fac populum tuum (1884) Veni Creator Spiritus (c. 1884) Ecce sacerdos magnus (1885) Virga Jesse (1885) Ave Regina caelorum (c. 1886) Vexilla regis (1892)
Other works	Organ works (1835–1890) Two Aequali (1847)

Secular vocal

Cantatas	Cantatas (1845–1893) Vergißmeinnicht (1845) Entsagen (c. 1851) Arneth Cantata: Heil Vater! Dir zum hohen Feste (1852) Mayer Cantata: Auf Brüder! auf (1855) Festgesang: Sankt Jodok sproß (1855) Germanenzug (1865) Helgoland (1893)
Lieder	Lieder (1850–1882) Der Mondabend (c. 1850) Frühlingslied (1851) Wie bist du, Frühling, gut und treu (1856) Herbstkummer (1864) Im April (c. 1865) Mein Herz und deine Stimme (1868) Volkslied (1882)
Choral works	Weltliche Chorwerke (1843–1893) An dem Feste (1843) Das Lied vom deutschen Vaterland (c. 1845) Ständchen (c. 1846) Der Lehrerstand (c. 1847) Sternschnuppen (c. 1848) Das edle Herz (c. 1851) Die Geburt (1852) Vor Arneths Grab (1854) Laßt Jubeltöne laut erklingen (1854) Des Dankes Wort sei mir vergönnt (at the latest 1855) Das edle Herz (1857) Am Grabe (1861) Du bist wie eine Blume (1861) Der Abendhimmel (1862) Herbstlied (1864) Um Mitternacht (1864) Trauungschor (1865) Der Abendhimmel (1866) Vaterlandslied (1866) Vaterländisch Weinlied (1866) Mitternacht (1869) Nachruf (1877) Das hohe Lied (1876–1879) Abendzauber (1878) Zur Vermählungsfeier (1878) Sängerbund (1882) Volkslied (1882) Trösterin Musik (1886) Um Mitternacht (1886) Träumen und Wachen (1890) Der deutsche Gesang (1892) Tafellied (1893)