F. Flemming's musical setting for Horace's famous Latin ode was immensely popular from the early 19th to the early 20th century, though it seems rarely to be performed or recorded any more. My arrangement is adapted from the versions found in old books. This version is for full SATB chorus. There is a also simpler choral version here on SoundCloud.

Both the original Latin and English translations are very easy to find in books and on the internet, so I haven't added separately lyrics or a translation on this SoundCloud page.  The Latin lyrics are in the pdf score (see below.)

The sound file is software-generated choral ah voices.  There is a pdf score at:

goo.gl/RuRfMY

Image: Imaginary portrait of Horace by Anton von Werner. Image licensing information: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quintus_Horatius_Flaccus.jpg


Please note that while this composition is based on a traditional song and lyrics in the public domain, my arrangement of is an original creative work under copyright. For performance permission, please see:
sites.google.com/site/jcorelis/music-permissions

Integer Vitae (full Version)

Jon Corelis was born in California and grew up in and around Chicago, where he earned a degree in Classical Languages and Literatures at the College of the University of Chicago. He later took a doctorate in Classics at Stanford, and taught Classics and Humanities at Stanford, the University of California, and the University of Minnesota. After a subsequent career as a software specialist in Silicon Valley, he now lives in Wisconsin. His poetry and other writings have been published in print and on web sites in eight countries, and he has given lectures and readings by invitation in America and Europe. 
He more recently has turned to composing songs and instrumental pieces.  His music has been featured on the web site The Flexible Persona, has been performed in concert by the Wisconsin ensemble a very small consortium, by the New York State flute quartet Party of Four, by the Opus Chorale of West Virginia, and at Denison University's TUTTI 2019 Festival, and has been recorded by flutist Robin Meiksins for her YouTube recording project 365 Days of Flute, and by clarinetist Emily Mehigh for her YouTube recording project The Miniature Month of May.

If you are interested in recording or publicly performing his compositions, please see his permissions page.