O admirabile commercium

General information

First antiphon at Vespers of the Octave of Christmas.

Notes on selected settings

• Fernando de las Infantas SSAAT or AATTB
• Josquin des Prez SATB or ATTB
• Johannes Regis SATTB

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Anonymous — O admirabile comertium  Latin STTB
• Girolamo Belli — O admirabile commercium  Latin SATTBB
• William Byrd — O admirabile commertium  Latin AATB
• Loyset Compère — O admirabile commercium - Germinavit radix Jesse  Latin SATB
• Fabio Costantini — O admirabile commercium  Latin SATB
• Ignazio Donati — O admirabile commercium  Latin S
• Melchior Franck — O admirabile comercium a 8  Latin SSAATTBB
• Jacob Handl — O admirabile commercium  Latin SSAA.TTBB
• Hans Leo Hassler — O admirabile commercium  Latin SATTBB
• Fernando de las Infantas — O admirabile commercium  Latin SSAAT
• Josquin des Prez — O admirabile commercium  Latin ATTB
• Urban Loth — O admirabile commercium  Latin TTT
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — O admirabile commercium  Latin SATTB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — O admirabile commercium a 8  Latin SATB.SATB
• Jacob Regnart — O admirabile commercium  Latin SATTB
• Teodoro Riccio — O admirabile commercium  Latin SATTB
• Johann Rosenmüller — O admirabile commerzium  Latin AA
• Thomas Stoltzer — O admirabile commercium  Latin SSATB
• Giovanni Maria Trabaci — O admirabile commercium  Latin SATTB

Text and translations

Latin text O admirabile commercium! Creator generis humani, animatum corpus sumens, de Virgine nasci dignatus est: et procedens homo sine semine, largitus est nobis suam Deitatem. German translation O wunderbarer Tausch! Der den Menschen erschuf, nimmt menschliches Leben an und wird aus der Jungfrau geboren. Von keinem Mann gezeugt, kommt er in die Welt und schenkt uns sein göttliches Leben.

English translation O admirable exchange: the creator of human-kind, taking on a living body was worthy to be born of a virgin, and, coming forth as a human without seed, has given us his deity in abundance. Common Poetic Translation: O wonderful gift: the creator of the human race, taking our flesh upon him, deigns to be born of a virgin; and, coming forth without seed of man, bestows his Divinity upon us. Another translation O wondrous exchange: the Creator of humankind, taking upon him a living body, vouchsafed to be born of a Virgin and, without seed, becoming a man, hath made us partakers of his Divinity.