William Byrd - Ave verum corpus

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Ave, verum corpus natum
De Maria Virgine:
Vere passum, immolatum
In cruce pro homine:
Cuius latus perforatum
Fluxit aqua et sanguine:
Esto nobis praegustatum
In mortis examine
O Jesu dulcis, O Jesu pie
O Jesu Fili Mariae
Miserere mei. Amen
O dulcis, o pie
O Jesu, fili Mariae
Miserere mei
 
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William Byrd (1540?-1623) was a highly prolific English composer who wrote music in a wide variety of genres, particularly keyboard music and both sacred and secular music. While his early religious music was Protestant in nature, sometime during the 1570s he converted to Catholicism and wrote music for Catholic services afterwards.