Anima Christi (Maher, William Joseph)

Composition Year	1863 c.
Genre Categories	Sacred hymns; Hymns; Religious works; For mixed chorus; Scores featuring mixed chorus; For unaccompanied chorus; Latin language; For voices (arr); Scores featuring the voice (arr); For unaccompanied voices (arr)

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Work Title	Anima Christi
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Composer	Maher, William Joseph
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IWM 5
Key	G major
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1863 c.
First Publication.	1864
Language	Latin
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Modern
Instrumentation	mixed chorus

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According to hymnary.org, this hymn "became popular in the latter half of the nineteenth century in British Roman Catholic churches, where it was used for evening benediction services. It is believed that Jesuit priest William J. Maher (b. Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, 1823; d. Paris, France, 1877) composed the tune around 1863 for a fourteenth-century Latin hymn, "Anima Christi sanctifica me." The obscure British collection Mission Hymns (1864) first published ANIMA CHRISTI for use with an anonymous English translation of this Latin text."