Aeternus vere est solus Deus (Hans Leo Hassler)

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Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2013-01-04).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 98 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Original key signature and note values. Editorial accidentals and slurs added.

General Information

Title: Aeternus vere est solus Deus
Composer: Hans Leo Hassler
Lyricist: Prosper of Aquitainecreate page

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB

Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Sacri concentus (Nuremberg, 1601)

Description: This setting of a trinitarian text by Prosper of Aquitaine is the 28th selection in the 1601 edition of Hassler's Sacri concentus; in the revised 1612 edition it is number 32.

Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Aeternus vere est solus Deus omni creator:
Vita in se vivens permanet esse, quod est.
Hoc Pater, hoc verbum Patris, hoc est Spiritus almus:
Quorum natura est una eademque fides.
Non coeptum aut auctum, non hic mutabile quidquam est:
Quod subeat leges temporis aut numeri.
Virtus praeteritis prior ulteriorque futuris:
Nil recipit varium, nil habet occiduum.
Nam quas ut voluit rerum sapientia fecit:
Multis vita quidem est praestita perpetua.
Sed quodcunque potest esse amplius aut minus esse:
Quodam fine ipsum, quod fuerat, moritur.
Sic nihil aeternum, quod commutabile factum est:
Et quod cuncta super, semper idem Deus est.

English.png English translation requested