ExclusiveMozart: Ave verum corpus, K. 618 (Vocal Ensemble)

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K. 618 (Vocal Ensemble). This beautiful piece was played by Papalin. It has Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 3.0, Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Named after its incipit, the Ave verum is a late medieval Latin rhyming prayer. It was probably composed in the 13th century; the author is unknown.

I have particularly fond memories of Mozart's Ave Verum. Let me explain why. In the private school I was privileged to attend, we were taught music and art as well as all the other normal subjects. We had a school orchestra as well as a choir, we were encouraged in sculpture, painting and other arts. Art and art history combined with philosophy were always very interesting subjects for me. Back to our piece: Ave Verum was always one of my favourites when we learnt to sing it a cappella in four voices as a class. When we were on a week-long art school trip to Florence, we visited a beautiful church with a hidden choir crypt behind the altar. Our art class gathered there and sang the Ave Verum in four-part acappella. To this day, it remains one of the most moving musical experiences I can call my own. The art trip included discussions about the great artists of the Renaissance and visits to many masterpieces.
It was a particular pleasure to see these masterpieces in person (even though some were exact replicas).
Our teachers who accompanied us at that time had a great deal of linguistic, historical, philosophical, architectural and artistic knowledge, and I still benefit from their way of thinking and analysing things. A big thank you to our teachers!

The video of this tree, about 25 metres high (my beloved husband's estimate), was shot by Simone Schlegel in Switzerland (near Rossberg, lit. Horse Mountain, so called because the peasants hid their horses so that Napoleon could not take them to war) and edited by Wenjing Ma.




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