Méditation religieuse, H 56 (Berlioz, Hector)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1
Composition Year	1831 A, 1849 B
Genre Categories	Meditations; Melodies; Songs; For mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For chorus with orchestra; French language

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Editor	Charles Malherbe (1853-1911) Felix Weingartner (1863-1942)
Translator	Ferdinand Sporck (1848–1928), German text Percy Pinkerton (1855–1946), English text
Publisher. Info.	Hector Berlioz Werke, Serie VI, Band 14 Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1900–07. Plate H.B. 34.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	Incorporated in Tristia, H 119 (Op.18), as No.1.
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Work Title	Méditation religieuse
Alternative. Title	Tristia, No.1
Composer	Berlioz, Hector
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	Œuvre 18 No.1; H 56B
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IHB 39
Key	G major
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1831 A, 1849 B
First Publication.	1849 (vocal score), 1851 (full score) B
Librettist	Anne-Louise Swanton-Belloc (1796–1881), after Thomas Moore (1779–1852)
Language	French
Dedication	à Prince Eugen von Sayn-Wittgenstein (1825–1886)
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	mixed choir (SSTTBB), orchestra
InstrDetail	2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, strings
External Links	Libretto at The Hector Berlioz Website

»Ce monde entier n’est qu’une ombre fugitive« (text by Louise Swanton-Belloc, after Thomas Moore “This world is a fleeting show”)

Paris: 1849 as Œuvre 18, no. 1 (vocal score)
Paris: 1851 (full score)
Paris: 1863, piano-vocal reduction in Collection de 32 Mélodies H 139: no. 20
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, n.d.(1903), as part of Hector Berlioz Werke (1900–07), Serie VI, Band XIV, edited by Charles Malherbe and Felix Weingartner
Kassel: Bärenreiter, BA 5452/II (1993), as part of New Berlioz Edition (1967–2005), Volume 12b, edited by David Charlton