Super flumina Babylonis (Giroust, François)

Genre Categories	Motets; For voice, mixed chorus, orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; Latin language

Performances

Complete recording (EU)
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MP3 file (audio)
Vangi (2017/6/16)

Performer Pages	Edith Selig (voice) Denise Monteil (voice) Jeanine Collard (voice) Michel Hamel (voice) Georges Abdoun (voice) Xavier Depraz (voice) Chorale des Jeunesses Musicales de France (chorus) Orchestre des Jeunesses Musicales de France (orchestra) Louis Martini (conductor) Marie-Claire Alain (organ)
Publisher Info.	Paris: Erato, 1957. LDE 3032.
Copyright	Public Domain - Non-PD US [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	BnF B-2052 - Disque microsillon, 33 t, 30 cm
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Work Title	Super flumina Babylonis
Alternative. Title
Composer	Giroust, François
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IFG 7
Language	Latin
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Classical
Piece Style	Classical

Giroust set the Super Flumina Babylonis twice. One of the settings, according to Grove Music, was submitted to "a contest sponsored by the Concert Spirituel in 1768 . . . There were three finalists, and when Giroust was revealed as the composer not only of the first prize, but also of a specially demanded second prize, there was a great sensation. The second setting was compared with the work of Pergolesi and it seems d’Alembert and others supported it believing it to be by Philidor."
It is not known whether this is the first or second of these settings.