Pange lingua

In 1929 Kodály set to music the hymn "Pange lingua" by Thomas of Aquin. It premiered in the same year in Budapest (with the choirs of the Attila-Street-School and the Szilágyi-Erzsébet-School and Ernö Riegler as organist, conducted by Adrienne B. Sztojanovits). Lyrics: Pange, lingua, gloriosiCorporis mysterium,Sanguinisque pretiosi,quem in mundi pretiumfructus ventris generosiRex effudit Gentium.Nobis datus, nobis natusex intacta Virgine,et in mundo conversatus,sparso verbi semine,sui moras incolatusmiro clausit ordine.In supremae nocte coenaerecumbens cum fratribusobservata lege plenecibis in legalibus,cibum turbae duodenaese dat suis manibus.Etc.