Fuit homo missus

General information

Motet for the Nativity of John the Baptist.
Source of text is John 1: 6,7 (altered)

Settings by composers

• Giovanni Bassano ATTB.TTTB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATB
• Hieronymus Praetorius SSTBB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Jan Le Febure — Fuit homo missus

Text and translations

Latin text 1:6  Fuit homo missus a Deo, cui nomen erat Joannes. 1:7  Hic venit in testimonium, ut testimonium perhiberet de lumine,... et pareret Domino plebem perfectam.

English translation 1:6  There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 1:7  This man came as a witness, to give testimony about the light,... and to prepare for the Lord a perfect people. by Edward Tambling