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This little Mozart transcription is at one remove from the original Ave verum corpus motet – which also dates from the last year of Mozart’s life. Liszt had already incorporated it into a work variously for piano, piano duet, organ or orchestra entitled A la chapelle Sixtine and this version merely adds a cadence to an excerpt from that work. (Liszt did make a more literal version of Mozart’s motet – for organ, S674a.)

from notes by Leslie Howard © 1993