Composition Year | 1794 |
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Genre Categories | Secular choruses; Choruses; For mixed chorus, wind band; |
Work Title | Hymne à l'être suprême, RH 629c |
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Alternative. Title | |
Composer | Gossec, François Joseph |
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | RH 629 |
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. | IFG 68 |
Key | E-flat major |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1794 |
First Performance. | 1794 |
First Publication. | 1794 |
Librettist | Théodore Désorgues (1764–1808) |
Language | French |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Classical |
Piece Style | Classical |
Instrumentation | mixed chorus (SSATB), wind band |
InstrDetail | |
Extra Information | Gossec initially composed for the text by Marie-Joseph Chénier (RH 629a), but eventually the new text by Désorgues was adopted. For details, see Constant Pierre, Les hymnes et chansons de la Révolution, pp. 308-20. Hymne à l'être suprême, RH 629b, also written for the Feast of the Supreme Being on 8 June 1794, is based on the same text. |