• Chant de guerre des Grecs modernes

Creator:
  • Chélard, Hippolyte-André-Jean-Baptiste, 1789-1861
Contributor:
  • Panseron, Auguste-Mathieu, 1795-1859
Title:
  • Chant de guerre des Grecs modernes
Extent:
  • 2 scores (8 leaves) ; 22 x 29.5 cm.
Format:
  • Musical score
  • Manuscript
Type:
  • Songs and music
Subject:
  • Choruses, Secular (Men's voices, 3 parts)
  • Songs (High voice) with piano
  • Greece—History—War of Independence, 1821-1829—Songs and music
Source acquisition:
  • Purchase: Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund. AM 2006-74.
Date:
  • 1825.
Abstract:
  • Consists of a martial three-part chorus (sopranos, tenors, and basses) titled “Chant de guerre des Grecs Modernes,” an autograph music manuscript by Chelard, presumably inspired by the Greek War of Independence, 12 pp. (numbered 222-234), signed in Greek characters and dated “Paris, October, 1825." Bound in cloth-covered boards with the pastorale “Finis Lubin,” an autograph music manuscript for soprano and piano by Auguste Panseron, 2 pp. (numbered 235-236), a fragment.
Location:
  • MSS C0938 no. 202q
  • MSS Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 C0938 no. 202q
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/bn999b609
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Range label:
  • Logical