The Prelude to Charpentier’s ‘Te Deum’ has opened Eurovision for over sixty years. But how did this warlike 17th-century fanfare become the signature tune for the world’s favourite international song ...
The most lavish of Charpentier’s four extant Te Deum settings was for an unknown occasion in 1692; there is an unsubstantiated theory that it might have celebrated the Grand Alliance’s victory at the ...
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