Inveni David (I have found David),
WAB 19, is a sacred
motet composed by
Anton Bruckner in 1868.
History
Bruckner composed the motet on 21 April 1868 at the end of his stay in
Linz. He wrote it for the 24th anniversary of the Liedertafel Frohsinn. The first performance occurred on 10 May 1868 as
offertory of a mass of
Antonio Lotti.[1][2]
The manuscript is archived at the Linzer Singakademie (Frohsinn-archive).[3] The motet was first published in band III/2, pp. 239–244 of the Göllerich/Auer biography.[1] It is put in Band XXI/23 of the Gesamtausgabe.[4]
August Göllerich, Anton Bruckner. Ein Lebens- und Schaffens-Bild,
c. 1922 – posthumous edited by Max Auer by G. Bosse, Regensburg, 1932
Anton Bruckner – Sämtliche Werke, Band XXI: Kleine Kirchenmusikwerke, Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Hans Bauernfeind and Leopold Nowak (Editor), Vienna, 1984/2001
Cornelis van Zwol, Anton Bruckner 1824–1896 – Leven en werken, uitg. Thoth, Bussum, Netherlands, 2012.
ISBN978-90-6868-590-9
Crawford Howie, Anton Bruckner - A documentary biography, online revised edition