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4 unusual facts about Magnificat


Egil Hovland

His sacred works include a Norwegian Te Deum, a Gloria, a Magnificat, and numerous works for organ, and he was one of the most noted church composers of Norway.

Jerónimo Francisco de Lima

He wrote a number of operas, which were performed in Lisbon; among his other compositions are a number of sacred works, including a Dixit Dominus and a Magnificat for four voices with basso continuo.

Madonna of the Magnificat

She is writing the opening of the Magnificat on the right-hand page of a book; on the left page is part of the Benedictus.

Magnificat

Vivaldi composed a setting of the Latin text for soloists, choir and orchestra, also Johann Sebastian Bach in his "Magnificat", BWV 243, for the Christmas vespers of 1723.


Common Worship

Penitence becomes optional, as does the Creed; the Te Deum disappears almost completely, and a Gospel canticle—the Benedictus in the morning and the Magnificat in the evening—follows the reading(s); there is a wide range of intercessions; collects are provided for lesser festivals (unlike in the main book); and there is a psalter.

Faà di Bruno

Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno a musician of some importance from Casale who published two books of madrigals as well as vespers, psalms, motets and settings of the Magnificat.

Gaspar Fernandes

He also added his own setting of the Magnificat in the fifth tone, some faux bordon versicles without text, and a vespers hymn for the Feast of the Guardian Angels.

Hilde Rössel-Majdan

Starting in the early 1950s, she recorded works by Bach, including his Magnificat, conducted by Felix Prohaska, with Mimi Coertse, Anton Dermota, Frederick Guthrie.

Magnificat Meal Movement

The Magnificat Meal Movement International (MMMI) was formed in 1986 as a “missionary” off-shoot of the ‘Celtic Corma Adoration’ group of Australia, which was founded in Melbourne in 1976 by J. Phelan, F. Eaton, D. Burslem and E. Burslem.

Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Nativitatis Domini ZWV 8, Magnificat in C major ZWV 107, O magnum mysterium (Motetto pro Nativitate) ZWV 171, Motet Chvalte Boha silného ZWV 165.

Rodrigo de Ceballos

79 works of Rodrigo's are known to survive; these include 39 motets, three masses, eight psalms for Vespers, six hymns, eight settings of the Magnificat, a set of complets, and seven secular pieces.

Selinsgrove Area High School

The 2005-2006 chorus premiered Matthew Harris' piece, "Oceanic Eyes" and the 2009-2010 choir performed "Magnificat" by John Rutter, under the direction of choral director Mrs. Katherine A. Bartol.

St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Chester

The Lady Chapel reredos features a Madonna and Child with the inscription "Magnificat anima mea Dominum, et exsultavit spiritus meus in Deum" from the Magnificat The Lady Chapel Altar has three carved panels featuring a pelican feeding her chicks with her own blood, a Lamb holding a Shepherd's staff with the inscription "Ecce Agnus Dei" and another carved panel depicting an Eagle in flight.

Thais St Julien

Miss St Julien has also appeared with The New Opera Theatre (as Dido in Dido and Æneas, her New York debut at Symphony Space, 1988), Pro Arte Chorale (Amor in a Concert Version of Orfeo ed Euridice, opposite Derek Lee Ragin), Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (Messiah), Great Neck Choral Society, International Dvořák Festival, Lyric Opera of Dallas, New Orleans Opera Association, Southwest Chamber Orchestra, Jefferson Performing Arts Society (Bach's Magnificat), etc.


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