Dettingen Te Deum | |
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by George Frideric Handel | |
Key | D major |
Catalogue | HWV 283 |
Year | 1743 |
Period | Baroque |
Text | Te Deum |
Language | English |
Performed | 27 November 1743 London : |
Movements | 18 |
Scoring | SATB choir and soloists, orchestra |
The Te Deum for the Victory at the Battle of Dettingen in D major, HWV 283, is the fifth and last setting by George Frideric Handel of the 4th-century Ambrosian hymn, Te Deum, or We Praise Thee, O God. He wrote it in 1743, only a month after the battle itself, during which Britain and its allies Hannover and Austria soundly routed the French.