Virgo prudentissima

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Virgo prudentissima is a motet by Heinrich Isaac from 1507. The text was written by Georg von Slatkonia , the imperial court conductor of the Viennese court music band , who later became Bishop of Vienna.

The motet was presumably premiered in 1507 during the Konstanz Reichstag and is considered an example of a state motet tied to a specific occasion. The chorale melody is used as a cantus firmus , which also penetrates the other voices.

The motet was first printed in Ludwig Senfl's Liber selectarum cantionum in 1520 . The intercession for Emperor Maximilian I contained therein was rewritten to the Catholic faith in the tradition of the Sistine Chapel . In a Protestant print by the Nuremberg publisher Hans Ott from 1538, Maximilian I was replaced by Charles V and the homage to Mary was replaced by an invocation of Christ.

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