Sicilienne [Maria Theresia von Paradis]

2013

Scored for

horn, violin, flute and strings

Duration

3 min

Žiga Stanič
Short description

Dopo la vittoria – piccola cantata or “the little cantata” – was composed for mixed choir a capella in 1996 and revised in 1998. The piece was commissioned by Sandro Boccardi on behalf of the City of Milan to celebrate 1,600 years since the death of St. Ambrose, Archbishop and patron saint of Milan in 1997.

The text for Dopo la vittoria is a description of the scene that inspired the creation of Te Deum: St. Augustine’s baptism by St. Ambrose, while jointly singing an ode to God. The text originates from the encyclopaedia The History of Church Singers and Songs (Исторический обзор песнопевцев и песнопения греческой церкви) compiled by Archbishop Filaret and published in 1902 in St. Petersburg. Keeping in mind the commission…

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World premiere

28.10.1977

Riga Polytechnic Institute Student’s Club, Riga, Latvia
Composer’s recital: Hortus Musicus
Hortus Musicus , Andres Mustonen (conductor)

performances
  • Dopo la vittoria – piccola cantata or “the little cantata”
  • was composed for mixed choir a capella in 1996 and revised in 1998. The
  • piece was commissioned by Sandro Boccardi on behalf of the City of Milan
  • to celebrate 1,600 years since the death of St. Ambrose, Archbishop and
  • patron saint of Milan in 1997.
PARTS
I Allegro
II Allegro
Vocal text

The Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed as used in the Ordinary of the Mass

Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem,
factorem coeli et terrae,
visibilium onmium et invisibilium.

Et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum,
Filium Dei unigenitum.
Et ex Patre natum ante onmia saecula.

Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine,
Deum verum de Deo vero.
Genitum, non factum,
consubstantialem Patri:
per quem omnia facta sunt.

Qui propter nos homines,
et propter nostram salutem
descendit de coelis.
Et incarnatus est de
Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine:
Et homo factus est.

Crucifixus etiam pro nobis;
sub Pontio Pilato passus,
et sepultus est.
Et resurrexit tertia die,
secundum Scripturas.
Et ascendit in coelum:
sedet ad dexteram Patris.
Et iterum venturus est com gloria
judicare vivos et mortuos
cujus regni non erit finis.

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