Chœur des Girondins (Varney, Alphonse)

First Publication	1847
Genre Categories	Songs; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; [9 more...]Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the piano; French language; National anthems; For voice, male chorus, piano (arr); For voices and chorus with keyboard (arr); Scores featuring the voice (arr); Scores featuring male chorus (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr)
Related Works	Pieces based on Chœur des Girondins

Sheet Music

Complete Score
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Publisher. Info.	Paris: Mme. Cendrier, n.d.(ca.1848). Plate Mme.C.546.
Reprinted	Paris: Cendrier, n.d.[1860].
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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Complete Score
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Arranger	Unidentified
Publisher. Info.	S. Ackerman, 1850.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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Work Title	Chœur des Girondins [Chant des Girondins]
Alternative. Title	Les Girondins. Mourir pour la patrie. Revolutionary Song of '48
Composer	Varney, Alphonse
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IAV 1
First Performance.	1847/08/03 Paris: Théâtre Historique
First Publication.	1847
Copyright Information	Publication noted in the Bibliographie de la France : 36^e année, Nº 37, 11 Septembre 1847, p.448, reg.205.
Librettist	Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) Auguste Maquet (1813–1888) partitally borrowed from Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760–1836)
Language	French
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voice, piano (possibly orchestra)
Related Works	Pieces based on Chœur des Girondins
Extra Information	Wikipedia article Originally performed as part of the play Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge, by Dumas and Maquet. Later adopted as the national anthem for the French Second Republic (1848-52), and published in numerous arrangements.