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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.
Rasin, also known as Haitian roots music, [2] is a musical style that began in Haiti in the 1970s when musicians began combining elements of traditional Haitian Vodou ceremonial and folkloric music with various musical styles.
August – Sir William Sterndale Bennett becomes Principal of the Royal Academy of Music in London. [2] 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 ...
The Requiem is often combined in recordings and concert performances with Fauré's early Cantique de Jean Racine, an award-winning composition originally for choir and organ which the composer wrote aged 19 in his last year of ten years at the school of church music École Niedermeyer de Paris. [28]
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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 ...
Between 1696 and 1699, he issued seven opus numbers, published by Estienne Roger in Amsterdam: two volumes of sonatas for one and two flutes with and without basso continuo, the tragedy Athalie by Jean Racine of which De Koninck set the choirs to music (1697), two volumes of trios, the Hollandsche Minne- en Drinkliederen (also from 1697) and a ...