Alma Redemptoris Mater (Loving Mother Of Our Saviour). Diego Ortiz. 16th-Century Maestro Di Capella, Chapel Royal Of Naples.

The Virgin of the Lilies

(La Vierge au lys).

Date: 1899.

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Author: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905).

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Alma Redemptoris Mater,

by Diego Ortiz.

Performed by Cantar Lontano.

Director: Marco Mencoboni.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/iVT9sxyr2I0.

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Alma Redemptoris Mater (English: Loving Mother of Our Saviour) is a Marian Hymn,

written in Latin hexameter, and one of four Seasonal Liturgical Marian Antiphons

sung at the end of the Office of Compline (the other three Antiphons being

Ave Regina Cælorum, Regina Caeli and Salve Regina).

Hermannus Contractus (also called Herman the Cripple, 1013–1054) is said to have

authored the Hymn, based on the writings of Saints Fulgentius, Epiphanius and

Irenaeus of Lyon. Alma Redemptoris Mater is mentioned in "The Prioress's Tale",

one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Formerly, it was recited at Compline only

from the First Sunday in Advent until the Feast of the Purification (2 February)

Diego Ortiz (1510 – 1570) was a Spanish composer and musicologist, in service to the

Spanish Viceroy of Naples, and, later, to Philip II of Spain. Ortiz published influential

treatises on both instrumental and vocal performance.

Portrait of Diego Ortiz

from the Title Page of his

"Trattado de Glosas" (1553).

This File 19 June 2009.

User: Capmo.

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