Chant sacré, H 44 (Berlioz, Hector)

		Composition Year 1829 Genre Categories Secular choruses; Choruses; For mixed chorus, piano; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the piano; For chorus with keyboard; For mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the orchestra; For chorus with orchestra; French language

Sheet Music

• Full Scores (1)
• Vocal Scores (2)

Full Scores

 Complete Orchestra Score, H 40B
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Editor:

Charles Malherbe (1853–1911)
Felix Weingartner (1863–1942)

Publisher Info.:

Hector Berlioz Werke, Serie VI, Band 14.
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1900–07. Plate H.B. 35

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

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Vocal Scores

 First version, H 40A; Op. 2, No. 6 (French/German/English)
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 Second version, H 40B (French/Latin)
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Daphnis (2010/5/14)

Editor:

Charles Malherbe (1853–1911)
Felix Weingartner (1863–1942)

Translator:

Emma Klingenfeld (1846–1935), German text
Percy Pinkerton (1855–1946), English text

Publisher Info.:

Hector Berlioz Werke, Serie VII, Band 16.
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1900–07. Plate H.B. 58, H.B. 59

Copyright:

Public Domain - Non-PD EU [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

Only the English translation is possibly under copyright in the EU.

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General Information

Work Title	Chant sacré
Alternative Title

Composer	Berlioz, Hector
Opus/Catalogue Number	Œuvre 2, No.6; H 44 (3 versions)
Key	A♭ major
Year/Date of Composition	1829
First Performance	A: Paris, Athénée musical, 18 February 1830 B: Marseilles, December 1843 C: Salle Herz, 3 February 1844
First Publication	1830 (vocal score) 1843 (full score)
Librettist	Thomas Moore (1779–1852), Irish Melodies Thomas Gounet (1801–69), French translation
Language	French
Average Duration	5 minutes
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	A: SSTTBB, pf B: SSTTBB – 2,2,2+2bclar,2 – 4,0,3,0 – timp, perc (2) – str C: six solo wind instr., orch (version LOST)

Misc. Comments

Adapted from a section (the Hymne) of the 1828 Prix d’Rome cantata, Herminie. The lost version of 1844 utilised six wind instruments by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax, and represents the first known use of the saxophone (David Cairns, Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness, p.299)

Publication History

• Paris: January 1830, as Œuvre 2, No.6 (vocal score)
• Paris: 1863, H 44A included in Collection de 32 Mélodies: no. 12
• Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, n.d., as part of Hector Berlioz Werke (1900–07), Serie VI, Band XIV (1903) and Serie VII, Band 16 (1904), edited by Charles Malherbe and Felix Weingartner
• Kassel: Bärenreiter, as part of New Berlioz Edition (1967–2005)

  H 44B in BA 5452/I, Volume 12a (1991), edited by Julian Rushton

  H 44A in BA 5454, Volume 14 (1996), edited by Ian Rumbold

Libretto

Libretto at The Hector Berlioz Website