Flens ego sum genitus

Born in tears, the composer imagines a funeral procession marked by lamentation. Life itself, he writes, is a series of tears and sorrow. The Latin text reflects on the human condition, a miserable, tearful existence for mortals destined to return to dust from whence they came. Meiland’s setting for SATB voices captures the profound sadness and penitential nature of the text, offering a deeply expressive motet for sacred occasions.