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| scoring = choir | published = }} ' (English: This place), WAB 23, is a sacred motet composed by Anton Bruckner in 1869. The text is the Latin gradual Locus iste for the annual celebration of a church's dedication. The incipit, , translates to "This place was made by God".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Motet Translations / Anton Bruckner: Locus Iste )〕 Bruckner set it for four unaccompanied voices, intended for the dedication of the ' (votive chapel) at the New Cathedral in Linz, Austria, where Bruckner had been a cathedral organist. It was the first motet that Bruckner composed in Vienna. It was published in 1886, together with two other gradual motets. As a composition with no obvious technical difficulty, it has been performed by church choirs and by professionals, often to celebrate church dedications. == History == Bruckner composed ''Locus iste'' on 11 August 1869. It was intended for the dedication ceremony of the ' () at the New Cathedral in Linz, Austria. The New Cathedral was under construction since 1862, and the ' was completed in 1869 as its first section. At that time Bruckner lived in Vienna, teaching at the Vienna Conservatory as a professor of harmony and counterpoint, and at the Vienna University as a part-time lecturer from 1876. He had a strong connection to the Old Cathedral of Linz, where he had been the organist from 1855 to 1868.〔 He had already been commissioned by Bishop Franz-Josef Rudigier to compose a Festive Cantata for the laying of the foundation stone of the new cathedral, and composed ''Preiset den Herrn'' (Praise the Lord) on a text by Maximilian Pammesberger, which was performed on 1 May 1862 on the building site. The Latin text of ''Locus iste'' is the gradual , part of the proper of the mass for ''Kirchweih'', the anniversary of a church's dedication. While some sources claim that the motet was first performed on the dedication day, 29 September 1869, together with the first performance of Bruckner's Mass in E minor, it was actually performed four weeks later, on 29 October, at the same location.〔 Bruckner dedicated the work to Oddo Loidol, one of his students at the Vienna Conservatory. It was Bruckner's first motet composed in Vienna. The motet was edited together with three other motets based on graduals (', WAB 11, ', WAB 30, and ', WAB 52) by Theodor Rättig, Vienna in 1886.〔 ' is often performed on the anniversary of a church's dedication.〔 It is put in Band XXI/25 of the ''ドイツ語:Gesamtausgabe''.〔(Gesamtausgabe – Kleine Kirchenmusikwerke )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Locus iste (Bruckner)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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