Opera Scotland

Te Deum, op22 Te Deum, op22

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Music

Hector Berlioz (born La Côte St André, Isère, 11 December 1803; died Paris, 8 March 1869)

Text

Liturgy

 

Premieres

Composed 1849; First Performance: Paris (Exposition Universale), 1855.

First Performance in UK: tbc

First Performance in Scotland: tbc

 

Background

Nothing like as long as his Requiem the Te Deum is as demandingly spectacular in terms of the sound world created. Composed in 1849, it was not performed until let loose in the hall of the Great Exhibition of 1855.