Ego sum resurrectio (Hans Leo Hassler)

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  • CPDL #25635:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif
Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2012-02-24).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 57 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Original pitch (ATBB); note values halved.
  • CPDL #25636:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif
Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2012-02-24).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Transposed up a fourth (SATB); note values halved.

General Information

Title: Ego sum resurrectio
Composer: Hans Leo Hassler

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: ATBB and SATB
Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Cantiones sacrae, 1591

Description: This motet is No. 11 in Hassler's Cantiones sacrae de festis praecipuis totius anni. . . , published at Augsburg in 1591. It is suitable for Easter, or also for use as an antiphon at the burial service.

Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Ego sum resurrectio et vita.
Qui credit in me etiam si mortuus fuerit, vivet.
Et omnis qui vivit et credit in me, non morietur in aeternum.

English.png English translation

I am the resurrection, and the life.
He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
(John 11:25-26)