The work was completed on 3 September 1885 and may have been intended for the celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Linz diocese; however, like the Ecce sacerdos magnus that Bruckner composed A.M.D.G. for that event, it was not performed there. It was performed on 8 December 1885 in the Wiener Hofmusikkapelle for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
| Original Name | Virga Jesse |
| Librettist | (Virga Jesse floruit) |
| Date of composition | 1885 (3 September 1885) |
| Premiered | 1885, December 8th in Vienna, Austria |
| First published | 1896 in Vienna, Austria |
| Type | Motet |
| Catalogue | WAB 52 |
| Spoken language | Latin |
| Instruments | Chorus/Choir - SATB |
| Autotranslations beta |
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