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Deux Déplorations

Deux Déplorations

Year
1943
Instrumentation
3 and 4 mixed voices and organ
Duration
ca 8'
Premiere
1/ Miserere, 3 voices (STB) and organ, St Pierre de Montrouge choir, Antoione Reboulot, organ, church St Pierre de Montrouge, Paris, April 9, 1943.

1 - Miserere Mei (SATB and organ) 2 - Libera me, Domine (STB and organ)

Playing time : Miserere Mei : ca. 5 min. Libera me : ca. 3'30

These two sacred vocal pieces have not been composed the same year : "Miserere mei" was included in a larger work for choirs SATB and organ, unpublished, composed for the Good Friday for the church Saint-Pierre de Montrouge where Jean Langlais was the organist. "Libera me Domine" has been composed 5 years later, for 3 voices only (STB) in 1948. The two works have been put in one collection in 1991, just after Jean Langlais'death.

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