Fuit homo missus

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General information

Motet for the Nativity of John the Baptist.
Source of text is John 1: 6,7 (altered)

Settings by composers

Giovanni Bassano ATTB.TTTB
Andrea Gabrieli SATT or SATB
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATB
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SAATB
Hieronymus Praetorius SSTBB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

Jan Le Febure — Fuit homo missus

Text and translations

Latin text

1:6 Fuit homo missus a Deo, cui nomen erat Joannes.
1:7 Hic venit in testimonium, ut testimonium perhiberet de lumine,
et pararet Domino plebem perfectam.

English translation

1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
1:7 This man came as a witness, to give testimony about the light,
and to prepare for the Lord a perfect people.

Translation by Edward Tambling