Via crucis (Liszt)
Via crucis (The 14 Stations of the Cross) is a work for mixed choir, soloists and organ or harmonium by Franz Liszt (1811–1886). There is also an autograph version for choir, soloists and piano, which does not differ in its musical substance. The work was written in Rome in September and October 1878 and completed in Budapest in February 1879.
construction
The work consists of 15 movements. An introductory movement, which uses two stanzas from the Latin hymn Vexilla Regis , is followed by 14 pieces dedicated to the 14 stations of the cross . In addition to quotations from the Passion reports in Latin , Liszt uses a half-strophe from the Stabat mater , his own arrangements of the hymns O head full of blood and wounds and O sadness, o heartache! and in the 14th station another verse from Vexilla Regis.
- introduction
- Organ and choir
1. Vexilla regis prodeunt, |
1. The king's banner stands forward; |
3. Impleta sunt, quae concinit |
3. What is fulfilled is what |
Hymn in Honore sanctae crucis / Hymus in honor of the Holy Cross |
- Station 1 - Jesus is sentenced to death
- Organ and bass
Innoncens ego sum a sanguine justi hujus. |
I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man. |
- Station 2 - Jesus carries his cross
- Organ and bass
Ave, crux! |
Greetings, cross! |
- Station 3 - Jesus falls for the first time
- Organ and choir
Jesus cadit. |
Jesus falls. |
Stabat mater dolorosa |
The painful mother stood |
Stabat mater , Mary sequence from the 13th century |
- Station 4 - Jesus meets his mother
- organ
- Station 5 - Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the cross
- organ
- Station 6 - Sancta Veronica (Veronica hands Jesus the handkerchief)
- Organ and choir
O head full of blood and wounds , full of pain and full of scorn! |
- Station 7 - Jesus falls the second time
- Organ and choir
Jesus cadit. |
Jesus falls. |
Stabat mater dolorosa |
The painful mother stood |
Stabat mater , Mary sequence from the 13th century |
- Station 8 - The women of Jerusalem (Jesus meets the weeping women)
- Organ and bass
Nolite flere super me, |
Do not |
- Station 9 - Jesus falls the third time
- Organ and choir
Jesus cadit. |
Jesus falls. |
Stabat mater dolorosa |
The painful mother stood |
Stabat mater , Mary sequence from the 13th century |
- Station 10 - Jesus is undressed (Jesus is stripped of his clothes)
- organ
- Station 11 - Jesus is nailed to the cross
- Organ and choir
Crucifige! |
Crucify him! |
- Station 12 - Jesus dies on the cross
- Organ, bass, choir
Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? |
My god, my god, why did you leave me? |
In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum. |
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Consummatum est. |
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1 O sadness, o heartache, is that not to be deplored? |
- Station 13 - Jesus is taken from the cross
- organ
- Station 14 - Jesus is placed in the grave
- Organ and choir
6. Ave crux, spes unica, |
6. Greetings, cross, only hope; |
Hymn in Honore sanctae crucis / Hymn for the honor of the Holy Cross |
Web links
- Via Crucis (Franz Liszt) , ChoralWiki, Choral Public Domain Library
- Via Crucis, p.53 (Liszt, Franz) , International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Peter Simonett: Via crucis - The Way of the Cross by Franz Liszt , Mater Dolorosa (Berlin-Lankwitz)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Kohlhase (Tübingen 1977) in the foreword to: Franz Liszt: Via Crucis Carus 40.173 pp. 2-3.