Composition Year | 1829 |
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Genre Categories | Secular choruses; Choruses; For mixed chorus, piano; |
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Work Title | Chant sacré |
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Alternative. Title | |
Name Aliases | Hymne sacré |
Composer | Berlioz, Hector |
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | Œuvre 2, No.6; H 44 (3 versions) |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IHB 12 |
Key | A-flat major |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1829 |
First Performance. | A: Paris, Athénée musical, 18 February 1830 B: Marseilles, December 1843 C: Salle Herz, 3 February 1844 |
First Publication. | 1830 (vocal score) 1843 (full score) |
Librettist | Thomas Moore (1779–1852), Irish Melodies Thomas Gounet (1801–69), French translation |
Language | French |
Average DurationAvg. Duration | 5 minutes |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Romantic |
Instrumentation | A: SSTTBB, pf B: SSTTBB – 2,2,2+2bclar,2 – 4,0,3,0 – timp, perc (2) – str C: six solo wind instr., orch (version LOST) |
Adapted from a section (the Hymne) of the 1828 Prix d’Rome cantata, Herminie. The lost version of 1844 utilised six wind instruments by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax, and represents the first known use of the saxophone (David Cairns, Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness, p.299)