What is Te Deum (Charpentier)?
{{Listen|type=music | filename = Charpentier, Te Deum (Prelude).ogg | title = Prelude, arranged as an organ solo | description = }} '''Te Deum''' is probably the best-known work of [[Marc-Antoine Charpentier]]. It sets the [[Te Deum]] in music. It is a Grand Motet, and is written in [[D major]]. It is a [[motet]] for soloists, choir, and orchestra. It was written to be peformed for the court of [[Louis XIV]], towards the end of the 17th century. At the time, Charpentier was [[Kapellmeister]] at the [[Church Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis]] in [[Paris]]; he was responsible for the music that was played there. The Te Deum was probably composed to commemorate the Battle of Steenkerque of 1692, or the Treaty of Turin, of 1695.<ref>{{Cite web|title=War and Peace 1614-1714 Alia Vox AVSA9908 [DBi] Classical Music Reviews: March 2015 - MusicWeb-International|url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2015/Mar/War_peace_AVSA9908_DB.htm|access-date=2023-10-22|website=www.musicweb-international.com}}</ref> After the [[Second world war|Second World War]], the [[European Broadcasting Union]] selected the first eight measures of the [[prelude]] to serve as jingle for [[Eurovision]]. Charpentier probably wrote six different versions of the ''Te Deum''. Four of these are still known. The best known is H.146, There is H.145 for eight voices, H.147 and H.148 for four voices each. == References == {{Reflist}} {{music-stub}} [[Category:Classical music]]