Salve Regina

The Salve Regina ( Hail Queen ) is the Marian antiphon is sung in the Liturgy of the Hours of the Catholic Church in the time of Ordinary either after Vespers or Compline - whichever is the last of these two Horen, which in Community is celebrated. In many regions, it is the custom, the Salve Regina at the funeral of a priest or a consecrated person to sing at the grave.

Named the antiphon is after the first two words of the Latin text, which arose before 1054 and Hermann of Reichenau ( Hermann the Lame, Hermannus Contractus ) is a Benedictine Abbey of Reichenau attributed.

The last invocations of prayer ( O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria ) are a later addition, the Bernard of Clairvaux is said to have added.

Text of the Salve Regina

Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae; vita, dulcedo et Spes nostra, salve. Ad te Clamamus, exsules filii Evae. Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes in hac valle lacrimarum. Eia ergo, Advocata nostra, Illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte. Et Jesus benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis post hoc exsilium ostende. O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria.

Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope, hail! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we sigh mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, turn your eyes of mercy to us, and after this our exile, show unto us, the blessed fruit of thy womb. O kind, O gentle, O sweet Virgin Mary.

Melodies of the Salve Regina

The Gregorian way of singing the Salve Regina is in the Graduale Romanum. However, the meistgesungene in monasteries and churches melody is that of the Belgian Baroque composer Henri Dumont (1610-1684), in praise of God No. 666, 4 ( GLalt 570). My initial motive - the major triad with the sixth - is also a frequent ringing disposition, often called Salve Regina - bells. A German transmission with a melody from Henry pipe was printed in the praise of God from 1975 under number 571, as well as the song paraphrase " Salve! Mary Queen " after a tune from the Rheinfeldischen hymnal of 1666 under the number 572

Beginning of the melody by Henri Dumont:

" Hail Queen " ( Salve -Regina - song)

On Johann Georg silk Busch (1641-1729) a Song to Mary goes back, which paraphrases the Marian title of the Salve Regina in the individual verses. In praise of God it is contained in section 536 ( GLalt 573).

1 Hail, Queen, (o Maria) - sublime wife and mistress, (o Maria). 2 O Mother of Mercy, - you of our lives candy. 3 You are our hope, hail, - you 're the sinners refuge. 4 We children of Eve shrine to you - from death and misery we call. 5 O powerful advocate, - be our helper to God. 6 Your mild eye applicable to us - and show us Jesus after the end.

The chorus is: Rejoice, ye cherubim, gives glory, ye seraphim, greet your Queen: Salve, salve, salve Regina!

The Salve Regina in the history of music (selection)

Through the centuries of Western music history, many composers set to music the Salve Regina, for example:

  • Johannes Ockeghem (ca. 1410-1497 ): Salve Regina ( motet )
  • Pierre de la Rue (c. 1460-1518 ): Salve Regina I - VI ( motets )
  • Jean -Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
  • Giovanni Battista Bassani (1657-1712)
  • Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) Sacred Concerto for soprano, strings and organ / harpsichord HWV 241
  • Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1781)
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
  • Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Salve Regina in G minor for four-part choir, strings and organ appear, Hob.XXIII / b: 2 ( 1771)
  • Antonio Salieri (1750-1825): Salve Regina D major (1815 ), with German text in G major and most recently in B flat major for four-part choir and orchestra
  • Cayetano Carreño (1774-1836): Salve Regina (1814 )
  • Ferdinand Schubert (1794-1859): Salve Regina, Op 12
  • Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Salve Regina, Op 140 in C major for mixed quartet ( April 1824 ) and Salve Regina, Op 153 in A Major for Soprano and Orchestra ( November 1817 )
  • Moritz Hauptmann (1792-1868): Salve Regina
  • Otto Nicolai (1810-1849): Salve Regina ( Hymn to the Virgin ), Op 39 (1846 )
  • Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Salve Regina, p 66 (1885 )
  • Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): Salve Regina, Op 67/1 (1895)
  • Leoš Janáček (1854-1928): Prayer of Jenufa in the second act of the opera of the same name
  • Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): the finale of the opera " Dialougues des Carmelites " (1957)
  • Hermann Schroeder (1904-1984): Salve Regina, in the Marian antiphons for Organ ( 1953 ) and " Salve Regina " Cantilena choralis for cello and organ ( 1981)
  • Jean Langlais (1907-1991): Missa Salve Regina, 3 voix égales, unisson, 2 orgues, 5 trombones, 3 trompettes (1954 )
  • Anton Dawidowicz (1910-1993): Salve Regina
  • Arvo Pärt ( b. 1935 ): Salve Regina (2002)
  • Guy Bovet ( b. 1942 ): Salve Regina for Organ ( 1978)
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber ( born 1948 ): in the musical " Evita " (1974) under the title " Requiem"
  • Enjott Schneider ( * 1950): Symphony No. 2, 1st movement
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