Exsultate, jubilate

Introduction

The Exsultate, jubilate K. 165 is a Motet for voice of Soprano and orchestrates, made up by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in January 1773.

Mozart is then 17 years old and has just entered to the service of the Colloredo prince-archbishop to Salzburg. At the time of its third voyage in Italy, he writes this part for the Castrat Venanzio Rauzzini which he had previously admired and with which he had entrusted a role in its opera Lucio Silla , just completed. The singer created the Exsultate in Milan on January 17th, 1773, the church of Théatins. The partition is altered secondarily by the type-setter and the new version (much less played nowadays), given on May 30th 1779.

The text is in Latin and its author remains unknown. He sings the joy of the happy hearts

The motet is composed of three parts (the first and the second being separated by a récitatif court) and its execution lasts approximately fifteen minutes.

Text

1) Exsultate, jubilate, O your animae beatae, dulcia cantica canendo, cantui vestro respondendo, psallant will aethera cum me.

2) Fulget amica dies, iam fugere and nubila and procellae; exortus is justis inexspectata Quies. Undique will obscura regnabat Nox; surgite tandem laeti, which timuistis adhuc, and iucundi aurorae fortunatae slings will dextera plena and lilia date.

3) You virginum corona, you nobis pacem gave, you consolare affectus, unde suspirat horn.

4) Alleluja, alleluja

Reference

'' The Three Versions off Mozart' S Exsultate, jubilate '', R Armstrong, P Zweifel, Archivio storico Lombardo ASS CXXVII

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