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Sedet rei peccatoris
Sedet rei peccatoris
Mater clementissima.
Mater clementissima.
Tu fac clemens quod regamus
 
Tu fac, clemens, quod rogamus,
Fortes ad certamina.
Fortes ad certamina.
</poem>
</poem>
{{Translation|English}}
''Translation supplied by Paul Pascal, Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Washington''
<poem>
The caring mother of God the Creator sits as the very merciful mother
of a guilty sinner.
May you, merciful one, bring to pass what we pray for who are strong
for the struggle.
'''Notes:'''
There seems to be no source or model for this text in Scripture.
"Sedet" appears to be used as in "sits <in judgment>" (cf.
Dies Irae: "Iudex ergo cum sedebit").
The point of the last words is not clear; other interpretations
may apply (but alternative interpretations considered seemed equally awkward).
The metrical pattern is highly unusual. The first stanza is in the standard
pattern of a Gregorian hymn (for example, the "Stabat Mater Dolorosa"): two
trochaic lines that rhyme, followed by a third line that lacks the
final unstressed syllable. The second stanza should be identical in
form. But it is truncated; what should be a second rhyming line is
omitted. This is unprecedented and appears unique.
</poem>


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General Information

Title: Alma Dei creatoris, KV 272a (KV 277), (full score)
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: 2 violins, cello, continuo
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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Alma Dei creatoris
Sedet rei peccatoris
Mater clementissima.

Tu fac, clemens, quod rogamus,
Fortes ad certamina.

English.png English translation Translation supplied by Paul Pascal, Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Washington

The caring mother of God the Creator sits as the very merciful mother
of a guilty sinner.

May you, merciful one, bring to pass what we pray for who are strong
for the struggle.

Notes:
There seems to be no source or model for this text in Scripture.

"Sedet" appears to be used as in "sits <in judgment>" (cf.
Dies Irae: "Iudex ergo cum sedebit").

The point of the last words is not clear; other interpretations
may apply (but alternative interpretations considered seemed equally awkward).

The metrical pattern is highly unusual. The first stanza is in the standard
pattern of a Gregorian hymn (for example, the "Stabat Mater Dolorosa"): two
trochaic lines that rhyme, followed by a third line that lacks the
final unstressed syllable. The second stanza should be identical in
form. But it is truncated; what should be a second rhyming line is
omitted. This is unprecedented and appears unique.

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