Cantique de Jean Racine (Fauré)
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Cantique de Jean Racine (Op. 11) is a work for mixed chorus and piano or organ by Gabriel Fauré. Written by the nineteen year old composer in 1864-5, the piece won Fauré the first prize when he graduated from the École Niedermeyer and was first performed the following year on August 4, 1866, with accompaniment of strings and organ. It was first published around 1875 or 1876 (Schoen, Paris, as part of the series Echo des Maîtrises) and appeared in a version for orchestra (possibly by the composer) in 1906. The accompaniment has also been arranged for strings and harp by John Rutter.
The text, "Verbe égal au Trés-Haut", is a paraphrase by Jean Racine (Hymnes traduites du Bréviaire romain, 1688) of the pseudo-ambrosian hymn for Tuesday matins, Consors paterni luminis.
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[edit] External links
- Program notes by John Bawden, director of the Fareham Philhamonic Choir
- Free scores, and complete lyrics in French, with English translation, of this work in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- Cantique de Jean Racine was available at the International Music Score Library Project.
- Background and links in French
- Consors paterni luminis
