Factus est repente [It happened suddenly] (Acts 2: 2, 4) – Gregor Aichinger

Acts 2: 2, 4 [Latin] – Suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind coming where they were sitting, alleluia: and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, speaking the wonderful works of God, alleluia, alleluia. [Verse 4 actually reads: “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak.”]

Original Latin:

Factus est repénte de cœlo sonus, tamquam adveniéntis spíritus veheméntis, ubi erant sedéntes, allelúia: et repléti sunt omnes Spíritu Sancto, loquéntes magnália Dei, allelúia, allelúia.

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“Factus est repente,” sacred motet for Communion of Pentecost Sunday, composed by Gregor Aichinger (1564-1628), and first published in Fasciculus sacrarum harmoniarum quatuor vocum, no. 6 (1606).

Sung by Ensemble Vocale di Venezia (director Gianandrea Pauletta)

Free sheet music at Choral Public Domain Library