George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)
Utrechter Te Deum HWV 278
Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
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Details
- For
- Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
- Product Type
- Single part Organ
- Author / Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Product number
- 493931
- Release Year
- 2002
- Extent
- 12 Pages
Description
Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum (HWV 278) received its first performance in St Paul’s Cathedral on 7 July 1713 during the celebrations for the Treaty of Utrecht. It is among his first compositions for the Anglican Church, and accordingly he set the words of the Te Deum, an ancient ecclesiastical hymn of obscure origins, in English translation (‘We praise thee, O God’).
The score, though richly orchestrated as befitted the occasion, dispenses with timpani, which, like the harpsichord, were probably ...