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Te Deum stained glass window by Christopher Whall at St Mary's church, Ware, Hertfordshire. The Te Deum (/ t eɪ ˈ d eɪ əm / or / t iː ˈ d iː əm /, [1] [2] Latin: [te ˈde.um]; from its incipit, Te Deum laudamus (Latin for 'Thee, God, we praise')) is a Latin Christian hymn traditionally ascribed to a date before AD 500, but perhaps with antecedents that place it much earlier. [3]
He was elected by the Propaganda Fide on 12 January 1687, and was consecrated at Somerset House on 13 May 1688 as titular bishop of Calliopolis. [1] After his consecration he went to his vicariate, arriving on 2 August at York, where he was received by the secular and regular clergy, who sang the Te Deum.
Desmarets' Te Deum was performed in the oratory of the Louvre Palace in February 1687 to celebrate Louis XIV's recovery from illness, and later that year the king granted him a pension of 900 livres. Desmarets married Élisabeth Desprez, the daughter of a Parisian blade manufacturer, in 1689, and the following year their daughter, Élisabeth ...
Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed six Te Deum settings, but only four of them have survived. [1] Largely because of the great popularity of its prelude, the best known is the Te Deum in D major, H.146, written as a grand motet for soloists, choir, and instrumental accompaniment probably between 1688 and 1698, during Charpentier's stay at the Jesuit Church of Saint-Louis in Paris, where he held ...
Charles King (1687 – 17 March 1748) was an English composer and musician of the 17th and 18th centuries, ... Te Deum in D; O Absalon My Son - Catch/round a 3 voc;
22 March 1687: The French composer died of a gangrenous abscess after accidentally piercing his foot with a staff while he was vigorously conducting a Te Deum. It was customary at that time to conduct by banging a staff on the floor. He refused to have his leg amputated so he could still dance. [13] [14] William III of England: 8 March 1702
The year 1687 in music involved some significant events. ... During a performance of his own Te Deum, Jean-Baptiste Lully injures his foot with the point of his cane; ...
From 1687 to 1691 he served as maestro di cappella at the church of San Giovanni in Monte in Bologna, ... a Te Deum which he had composed in 1741 for Francis I, ...