Salve Regina, Mater misericordiae,
vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, salve. 

[Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Evae.]1

[Ad]2 te suspiramus gementes et flentes
in hac lacrimarum valle. 

[Eia ergo, advocata nostra,
illos tuos misericordes oculos
ad nos converte.]3 

[Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.]4

[O clemens, o pia]5, o dulcis Virgo Maria.

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¹ Strozzi: "Regina ad te clamamus, ad te suspiramus exules filii Evae."
² Strozzi: "Regina ad"
³ omitted by Schubert (D. 223); Schubert (D.676): "Eia ergo, advocata nostra, oculos tuos ad nos converte"; Polignac: "Salve Regina,"
⁴ omitted by Schubert (D.223); Schubert (D. 27): "Ostende nobis post hoc exsilium Jesum benedictum fructum"; Schubert (D. 676): "Et post hoc exilium ostende nobis Jesum, fructum ventris tui."; Schubert (D. 811): "Et ostende nobis post hoc exilium Jesum, filium tuum."
⁵ Schubert (D. 27 and D. 386): "O pia, o clemens"

Text Authorship:

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, an antiphon possibly written by a monk of Reichenau, Hermann the Lame (1013-1054), or by Adhemar, bishop of Le Puy (-1098) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Salve Regina", op. 67 no. 1 (1894-1895) [ voice and piano or organ ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Herbert Norman Howells (1892 - 1983), "Salve Regina" [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962), "Salve Regina", first performed 2001 [ SATB chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521), "Salve regina" [ four-part chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521), "Salve regina" [ five-part chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Arthur Vincent Lourié (1891 - 1966), "Salve Regina ", 1915-17 [ voice and piano ], from Corona carminum sacrorum, no. 2, Москва ( Moscow), Государственное музыкальное издательство (Gosudarstvennoe muzykal’noe izdatel’stvo ) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Salve Regina" [ soprano, violin, and piano ], Aria in Bb  [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jacob Obrecht (1457?8 - 1505), "Salve Regina" [ vocal trio a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Johannes Ockeghem (1410?25 - 1497), "Salve Regina, Mater misericordiae" [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Émile Paladilhe (1844 - 1926), "Salve Regina", 1887 [ high voice and piano or organ ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Roxanna Panufnik (b. 1968), "Salve Regina" [ voices and piano ], confirmed with CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Edmond de Polignac, prince (1834 - 1901), "Salve Regina", <<1884 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Mélodies et pièces diverses pour chant, no. 20, Paris, Édition Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Salve Regina" [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nino Rota (1911 - 1979), "Salve regina", 1958 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Alessandro Scarlatti (1659 - 1725), "Salve Regina" [ chorus ], motet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757), "Salve regina", 1756 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Salve Regina", D 27 (1812), published 1928 [ soprano, orchestra ], Edition Strache, VN 21, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Salve Regina", D 106 (1814), published 1888 [ tenor, orchestra ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Salve Regina", alternate title: "Offertorium", op. 47, D 223 (1815), published 1825, first performed 1825 [ soprano, orchestra ], A. Diabelli & Co., VN 1901, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Salve Regina", D 386 (1816), published 1833 [ satb chorus a cappella ], A. Diabelli & Co., VN 4523, Wien, published with orchestral accompaniment as a work of Ferdinand Schubert [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Salve Regina", alternate title: "Offertorium", op. posth. 153, D 676 (1819), published 1845 [ soprano, strings ], A. Diabelli & Co., VN 7978, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Salve Regina", op. posth. 149, D 811 (1824), published 1850, first performed 1824 [ ttbb quartet ], A. Diabelli & Co., VN 7972, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Rudi Spring (b. 1962), "Salve Regina", op. 38 (1988) [ solo voice and pedal point ad libitum ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Barbara Strozzi (1619 - 1677), "Salve Regina", op. 5 no. 11, published 1655 [ soprano, continuo ], from Sacri Musicali Affetti, no. 11, Gardano, Venice [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), "Salve Regina", RV. 616 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), "Salve Regina", RV. 617 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), "Salve Regina", RV. 618 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), "Salve Regina", RV. 619 [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by John Browne, William Cornish, Richard Davy, Richard Hygons, Walter Lambe, Robert Wylkynson.

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lau Kanen) , "Salve Regina", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Hail O queen", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Salut Reine, mère miséricordieuse", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Ton Rooijmans) , "Nous vous saluons, Reine"
• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Sei gegrüßt, Königin", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: John Versmoren , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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