Pater peccavi (Bartolomeo Montalbano)

Title: Pater Peccavi
Composer: Bartolomeo Montalbano

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: S

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: Basso continuo
Published: 1629

Description: Solo motet for high voice and continuo

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Pater peccavi in caelum, et coram te: jam non sum dignus vocari filius tuus: fac me sicut unum ex mercenariis tuis.
Quanti mercenarii in domo patris mei abundant panibus, ego autem hic fame pereo! Surgam, et ibo ad patrem meum,
et dicam ei: fac me sicut unum ex mercenariis tuis.

English translation

Father, I have sinned before heaven and in thy sight! I am unworthy to be called thy son. Let me be as one of thy servants!
So many servants have bread in abundance at my father's house, and I perish here from hunger! I shall go to my father
and say: let me be as one of thy servants!