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Ave Verum Corpus, K 618

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Mozart, W.A.: Ave Verum CorpusThe motet Ave Verum Corpus, K 618 (1791), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Orchestra Gli Armonici.

Ave Verum Corpus, K 618, motet (vocal musical setting of a sacred text) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart based on a Roman Catholic eucharistic text. The piece was composed in the summer of 1791, half a year before the composerā€™s death and eight years after Mozart had last completed a piece of sacred music. The gentle and serene Ave Verum Corpus was written for Anton Stoll, choirmaster in the town of Baden, where Mozartā€™s wife, Constanze, often visited the spa. Unlike the dramatic and famously unfinished Requiem in D Minor, K 626, on which Mozart was working at the same time, Ave Verum Corpus is of humble mien and perfectly suited to the small-town choir for which it was intended.

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