PRELUDE from Te Deum (score & parts)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 '1704) born near Paris was a French composer of the Baroque period. An exceptionally prolific and versatile composer, Charpentier produced compositions of the very highest quality throughout his life. A very well educated young man originally intending to enter the law profession, his musical mastery particularly in sacred vocal music was recognized and highly regarded by his contemporaries. He dropped out of his law studies in Paris and moved to Rome where he studied and absorbed the contemporary Italian music style of the time before bringing it back to France. Upon returning home, he began working as the house composer to the Duchesse de Guise. For the next seventeen years, Charpentier composed a large quantity of vocal works for the Duchesse such as psalms, hymns, motets, a mass and a succession of oratorio bearing strong Italian influences. Later in his career, Charpentier was appointed Master of Music for the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris in 1698, a ro

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