Feichtener Marienlied

Song for Assembly, choir (STAB) and organ

(2024) [04:20]
LMB-OP-038-00-A-2024

Ensemble: Assembly, choir (SATB) and organ
Dedication: to the Sanctuary of Feichten
First performance | Performers: 15.08.2024 – Feichten Sanctuary – Feichten Assembly and Choir – Conductor and organist Matthias Zenz
Subsequent performances:
Edition: unpublished work
Description: Marian song written by Lucio Mosè Benaglia to a text by Feichten parish priest Michael Witti. The composition was requested to become the official melody of the Marian sanctuary and the beautiful baroque church in Feichten.

Here is the short text of the composer’s presentation of the piece to the Feichten community:

Dear parishioners,
dear pilgrims of the Feichten pilgrimage church,
When I came here to Feichten in May 2013 and accompanied a pilgrimage Mass of the Italian Catholic community from Munich on the organ, I would never have imagined that one day your parish priest, Michael Witti, would entrust me with the task of composing the melody of this Marian hymn in Feichten to his beautiful text.
I am Italian and come from the city of Bergamo, the city that is known throughout the world for the dramatic memories of the pandemic that claimed many victims in our city. But Bergamo is also the city that gave birth to great figures in art, music and the Christian faith, such as Pope John the Twenty-third.

I have lived in Munich for 30 years, and here in Germany I have found a new homeland of which I am proud and to which I am as loyal as to my old one, Italy. This small but intense melody probably contains these two musical souls of mine: the Italian one, lover of beautiful melodies, and the German one, very special and unique in sacred music. I hope that my small and modest musical work will be appreciated and accepted wholeheartedly and that perhaps one day it will be known beyond the borders of Feichten, to the praise and honour of God and his holy mother.
And this in the knowledge that this melody, together with all the others that are sung in your beautiful church, will help us to walk together towards our true home: the heavenly one.

Lucius Mosè Benaglia