("Let us raise"), WAB 44, is the last of eight settings of the hymn Tantum ergo composed by Anton Bruckner in .
History Bruckner composed the motet in during his stay in St. Florian Abbey. The original manuscript is lost. An autograph voice score is stored in the archive of the abbey.C. van Zwol, p. 701.
The motet was first published in band II/2, pp. 256–258 of the Göllerich/Auer biography. It is put in Band XXI/18 of the .Gesamtausgabe - Kleine Kirchenmusikwerke
Music
The work of 29 bars in B-flat major, as edited in the current Gesamtausgabe, is scored for choir, 2 violins, 2 trumpets and organ.
On 25 June 2017 a new edition of the score by Cohrs, prepared for the ,The Anton Bruckner Urtext Gesamtausgabe with "reconstructed parts " of viola, cello and contrabass, and adding of timpani has been premiered by Łukasz Borowicz with the RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.27.05.2017: Neue Bruckner Urtext Ausgabe in Berlin
Discography There are only three recordings of this last setting of Tantum ergo: Richard Proulx, Cathedral Singers and Chamber Orchestra, Rediscoverd Masterpieces – CD: GIA 515, 1998 Thomas Kerbl, Chorvereinigung Bruckner 09, Anton Bruckner Chöre/Klaviermusik – CD: LIVA 034, 2009 Łukasz Borowicz, RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Raphael Alpermann (Organ), Anton Bruckner – Missa solemnis – CD: Accentus ACC 30429, 2017 (Cohrs edition)
References
Sources August Göllerich, Anton Bruckner. Ein Lebens- und Schaffens-Bild, – 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.
External links
Tantum ergo B-Dur, WAB 44 Critical discography by Hans Roelofs