Month: April 2019
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With Cheerful Notes
The Esterhazy Singers performed Haydn’s Te Deum and Handel’s Chandos Anthems 9 and 11. Commissioned by Empress Marie Therese, Haydn wrote his Te Deum in C to celebrate the arrival of Lord Nelson to Eisenstadt, the family home, in 1800. Years earlier, Handel was commissioned by the Duke of Chandos to compose twelve anthems. Chandos…