Le chant du retour (Méhul, Etienne Nicolas)

Composition Year 1797
Genre Categories Secular choruses; Choruses; For mixed chorus, wind band; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring wind band; For chorus with orchestra; French language; For mixed chorus, piano (arr); Scores featuring mixed chorus (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr); For chorus with keyboard (arr); For voice, continuo (arr); For voices with continuo (arr); Scores featuring the voice (arr); Scores with basso continuo

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Arrangements and Transcriptions

For Mixed Chorus and Piano (Pierre)
See: Musique des fêtes et cérémonies de la Révolution française (No. 85)
For Voice and Continuo

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Publisher. Info. Paris: Magasin de musique à l'usage des fêtes nationales, n.d.[1797].
Copyright
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General Information

Work Title Le chant du retour
Alternative. Title Hymne pour la paix
Composer Méhul, Etienne Nicolas
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. IEM 27
Key C major
Text Incipit Contemplez nos lauriers civiques
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1797
First Performance. 1797/12/10
First Publication. 1797
Librettist Marie-Joseph Chénier (1764–1811)
Language French
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Classical
Piece Style Classical
Instrumentation mixed chorus (SATB), wind band
InstrDetail
2 piccolos, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons,
2 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, serpent,
bass drum, cymbals, triangle
Extra Information Complete source for instrumental parts has not been found. See Constant Pierre, Les hymnes et chansons de la Révolution, pp. 408-9.
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