Méditation religieuse, H 56 (Berlioz, Hector)

		Movements/Sections 1 Composition Year 1831, revised 1849 Genre Categories Secular cantatas; Cantatas; For mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For chorus with orchestra; French language

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Philip Legge (2009/1/9)

Editor:

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

Translator:

F. Graf Sporck, German text
Percy Edward Pinkerton (1855–1946), English text

Publisher Info.:

Hector Berlioz Werke, Serie VI, Band 14.
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1900–07. Plate H.B. 34

Copyright:

Public Domain - Non-PD EU [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

Incorporated in Tristia, Op. 18, as No. 1
Only the English translation is possibly under copyright in the EU.

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General Information

Work Title	Méditation religieuse
Alternative Title	Tristia, No. 1

Composer	Berlioz, Hector
Opus/Catalogue Number	Œuvre 18, No. 1; H 56B
Key	G major
Movements/Sections	1
Year/Date of Composition	1831, revised 1849
First Publication	1849 (vocal score) 1851 (full score)
Librettist	Anne-Louise Swanton-Belloc (1796–1881), after Thomas Moore (1779–1852)
Language	French
Dedication	à Prince Eugen von Sayn-Wittgenstein
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Choir: SSTTBB – 2,0,2,2 – 2,0,0,0 – str

Misc. Comments

»Ce monde entier n’est qu’une ombre fugitive« (text by Louise Swanton-Belloc, after Thomas Moore “This world is a fleeting show”)

Libretto

Libretto at The Hector Berlioz Website

Publication History

• Paris: 1849 as Œuvre 18, no. 1 (vocal score)
• Paris: 1851 (full score)
• Paris: 1863, piano-vocal reduction in Collection de 32 Mélodies H 139: no. 20
• Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, n.d.(1903), as part of Hector Berlioz Werke (1900–07), Serie VI, Band XIV, edited by Charles Malherbe and Felix Weingartner
• Kassel: Bärenreiter, BA 5452/II (1993), as part of New Berlioz Edition (1967–2005), Volume 12b, edited by David Charlton