Hymne

Gabriel Fauré
Composed in 1870.


Publications

  • "Complete Songs" (5 Vols) (ed. by Roy Howat & Emily Kilpatrick) (2014)
  • Quatre Mélodies (1871)
  • Hymne (1871 - 1920)

Recordings

  • Mélodies sur des poèmes de Baudelaire (2003)
  • Fauré Mélodies (Intégrale) (1994)

Poems

Hymne

Catalogue

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1167223x/f1.image.r=gabriel%20faur%C3%A9%20hymne

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/track/4hwtAUPojSBnZ9ZJinIIbS?si=bMKaRjrCTYmaTXuojS09gw

Languages

French

Scorings

solo voice, piano

Genres

Mélodie, Classical

Tessitura

high voice

Premiere

First performed 22 March 1873 by Félix Lévy (tenor), to whom the work is dedicated.

Tonality

G major

Notes

4/5 quatrains set to music - stanza 3 is omitted. Dedicated to "à Monsieur Félix Lévy".