Veni Creator Spiritus
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Author: Rabanus Maurus.
Office hymn for Pentecost, attributed to Rabanus Maurus (c. 780-856). The common German translation is Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist, not to be confused with Komm, heiliger Geist, a version of the Pentecost sequence Veni Sancte Spiritus. English versions include John Dryden's Creator Spirit, by whose aid. See also Komm, Gott Schöpfer
View the Wikipedia article on Veni Creator Spiritus.
Notes on selected settings
In Latin, unless otherwise stated.
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Settings by composers (automatically updated)
- Gregorio Allegri — Latin SATB
- Ambrosian chant — Latin Unison
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SAATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin TTB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SAB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SAA, SAAT
- Giovanni Matteo Asola — Latin SATB
- Thomas Attwood — English SATB
- Giuseppe Baini — Latin SATB
- Jennifer Bastable — Latin SATB
- H. Battre — Latin SATT,SAT
- Hector Berlioz — Latin SSA
- Gilles Binchois — Latin SAT
- Jean de Bournonville — Latin SATB
- Richard Brimle — English SATB
- Antonio de Cabezón — English SATB
- Benjamin Carr — 2 STB
- Claudio Casciolini — Latin SATB
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier — Latin solo Soprano
- Filippo Ciciliani — Latin SSATTBB
- Henry Cope Colles — English SSATB
- Nicolas Couturier — Latin SATB
- Thomas Crecquillon — Latin SATTB
- William Daman — English SATB
- Joannes Deslins — Latin SATB
- Johann Melchior Dreyer — Latin SATB
- Guillaume Dufay — Latin STT
- John Farmer — English SATB
- Carlotta Ferrari — Latin SATB
- Heinrich Finck — Latin SATB
- César Franck — Latin TB
- Orlando Gibbons — English SATB
- Charles Gounod — Latin TTBB
- Gregorian chant — Latin Unison
- Joseph Hanisch — Latin SATB
- Johann Michael Haydn — Latin SATB
- Johann David Heinichen — Latin SATB
- Bernard Hellebusch — Latin SSAA
- Johannes Heugel — Latin SATB
- Friedrich Heinrich Himmel — Latin SATB
- Juan Navarro Hispalensis — Latin SATB
- Václav Emanuel Horák — Latin SATB
- William Parsons I — English SATB
- Niccolò Jommelli — Latin SATB
- Michel-Richard de Lalande — Latin SATBB,SATBB.SATBB
- Huub de Lange — Latin SATB
- Orlando di Lasso — Latin SAATBB
- Orlando di Lasso — Latin SATTB
- João Baptista Lehmann — Latin SA
- João Baptista Lehmann — Latin Unison
- Franz Liszt — Latin TTBB,TTB
- Mark Liversidge — English SATB
- Giovanni de Macque — Latin SSATTB
- Jacquet de Mantua — Latin SATTB
- Johann Baptist Molitor — Latin SATB
- Juan Montes — Latin SSA
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — German SATB
- William Mundy — Latin STTBB,SAATB
- T. Tertius Noble — English SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin SATB
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Latin SATB
- Josef Ohnewald — Latin SATB
- Josef Ohnewald — Latin SATB
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Latin SATTB
- John Playford — English STB
- Costanzo Porta — Latin ATTBB
- Michael Praetorius — Latin SATTB
- Michael Praetorius — Latin SATTB
- Michael Praetorius — Latin TTB
- Michael Praetorius — Latin SATTB
- Michael Praetorius — Latin SATB.SATB
- Michael Praetorius — Latin SS,2 equal voices
- Michael Praetorius — Latin SATB
- Oreste Ravanello — Latin SSA
- Joan Crisòstom Ripollès — Latin SSAT.SATB
- Albert H. RoSewig — Latin SATB
- Juan García de Salazar — Latin SATB
- Albert Schweitzer — Italian SATB
- Johann Stadlmayr — Latin SATB
- Remi Studer — Latin SATB
- Stanislav Surin — Latin Unison
- Thomas Tallis — English SATB
- Vincenzo Ugolini — Latin SATB
- Jacobus Vaet — Latin SAB
- Tomás Luis de Victoria — Latin SATB
- Matthew J C Ward — Latin SATB
- Franz Xaver Witt — Latin SATB
- Franz Xaver Witt — Latin SATB
- Franz Xaver Witt — Latin SAATB
- Franz Xaver Witt — Latin SATTB
- Franz Xaver Witt — Latin SATB
Text and translations
 Latin textVeni, Creator Spiritus, |
 English translationCome, Holy Ghost, Creator, come, |
English translation Version by George Wither |
 German translationKomm, Schöpfer Geist, kehr bei uns ein, |
 Spanish translationVen Espíritu creador; |
English translation Translation by John Cosin (used by Thomas Attwood):  Chinese translation伏求聖神從天降臨， |
 Vietnamese translationCompendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church |