Mitten wir im Leben sind, Op. 23, No. 3 (Felix Mendelssohn)
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- Editor: Robert Urmann (submitted 2011-07-28). Score information: Executive, 14 pages, 376 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- Editor: Arie Fokkens (submitted 2007-08-02). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 284 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: partly condensed score: where possible written on 4 staves
- Possible error(s) identified. Error summary: Lyric variation from other editions in measures 9 and 13. --Ab73 19:39, 1 February 2012 (CST) See the discussion page for full description.
- Editor: Arie Fokkens (submitted 2007-08-02). Score information: A4, 11 pages, 350 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: full 8-staff score
- Possible error(s) identified. Error summary: Lyric variation from other editions in measures 9 and 13. --Ab73 19:39, 1 February 2012 (CST) See the discussion page for full description.
General Information
Title: Mitten wir im Leben sind, MWV B 21 (Op. 23, No. 3)
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Lyricist: Martin Luther, the first stanza from Media vita in morte sumus. Notker, A.D. 912
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSAATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: German
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
- Setting: Mendelssohn’s Werke, Vol. 14/B
- Text: Dr. Martin Luther’s Deutsche Geistliche Lieder. The Hymns of Martin Luther set to their original Melodies with an English version, ed. Leonard Woolsey Bacon and Nathan H. Allen (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1884)
Description:
External websites:
- digitized score at MDZ
- The Hymns of Martin Luther on The Online Library of Liberty
Original text and translations
German text after: Erfurter Enchiridien, 1524 Mitten wir im Leben sind |
English translation Translation by R. Massie (1884) Though in midst of life we be, |