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Cantique de Jean Racine (Chant by Jean Racine), Op. 11, is a composition for mixed choir and piano or organ by Gabriel Fauré. The text, "Verbe égal au Très-Haut" ("Word, one with the Highest"), is a French paraphrase by Jean Racine of a Latin hymn from the breviary for matins , Consors paterni luminis .
Jean-Baptiste Racine (/ r æ ˈ s iː n / rass-EEN, US also / r ə ˈ s iː n / rə-SEEN; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʁasin]; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature.
First performed during the 1992 Carnival in Port-au-Prince, just months after the presidency of Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown by a military coup d'etat, RAM began regularly playing a song entitled "Fèy", the Creole word for "leaf". The song lyrics were of folkloric Vodou origins.
Britannicus, 1670 (book in DjVu format). Britannicus is a five-act tragic play by the French dramatist Jean Racine.It was first performed on 13 December 1669 at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.
Athalia (HWV 52) is an English-language oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel to a libretto by Samuel Humphreys based on the play Athalie by Jean Racine. The work was commissioned in 1733 for the Publick Act in Oxford – a commencement ceremony of the University of Oxford, which had offered Handel an honorary doctorate (an honour he ...
August 4 – First performance of Gabriel Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine. August 9 – Marie Trautmann marries fellow musician Alfred Jaëll. October 21 – Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Vie parisienne debuts in Paris at the Théâtre du Palais Royale. November 17 – Ambroise Thomas's opera Mignon debuts in Paris at the Opéra-Comique.
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Op. 1 Two Songs Le papillon et la fleur; Mai; Op. 2 Two Songs Dans le ruines d'une abbaye; Les matelots; Op. 3 Two Songs Seule; Sérénade toscane; Op. 4 Two Songs Chanson du pêcheur (lamento) Lydia; Op. 5 Three Songs Chant d'automne; Rêve d'amour; L'absent; Op. 6 Three Songs Aubade; Tristesse; Sylvie; Op. 7 Three Songs (1870-8) Après un ...