Hummel’s small but important corpus of sacred works belongs to a period of unparalleled richness in the history of church music. Between 1796 and 1808 first Haydn, then Hummel and Beethoven composed an extraordinary series of Masses for Prince Nicolaus II Esterházy. Completed on 1 January 1806, Hummel’s exuberant setting of the Te Deum recalls all the brilliance and verve of Haydn’s great Te Deum of 1799.