| Title: | Choeurs pour une Jeanne d'Arc |
| English title: | Choruses for Joan of Arc |
| Genre: | choral |
| Composition Date: | 1941 (Neussargues) |
| Publisher: | unpublished |
| Instrumentation: | large and small choirs |
| Duration: | unknown |
| Premiere: | 11 May 1941, the Feast of St. Joan of Arc (Lyon, Marseille). |
| Dedication: | unknown |
| Movements: |
- Te Deum
- Impropères [Improprieties]
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| Notes: | Choeurs pour une Jeanne d'Arc was written for Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Barbier's "pageant" Portique pour une fille de France, a stage play with substantial choral sections. Messiaen and other members of La Jeune France were asked to write music for state celebrations after Joan of Arc's Feast Day was declared a public holiday in Vichy France. [Hill & Simeone, pp. 106, 109]
The Te Deum is an early Latin hymn, traditionally ascribed to St. Ambrose and St. Augustine. |
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