Two Orchestral Te Deum Settings (1745 & 1750) by Maurice Greene Full Orchestra - Sheet Music

SKU: ST.MB111

ISBN 9780852499771. 10 x 13 inches.

Transcribed and edited by Harry Diack Johnstone and Ryan Patten
First published in 2025
Pages: 168
Format: Hardback
Dimensions (mm): 330 x 254 x 21
Weight: 1.294kg

These orchestrally accompanied Te Deum settings, from 1745 and 1750 respectively, are two out of six that survive from a possible output of twelve. They are late works that demonstrate Greene’s compositional prowess as the leading British-born composer of his time, and which conclude an extensive series of English Te Deum settings begun by Purcell in 1694, with later examples by Blow, Turner and Croft. Structurally the two are very different, not only from each other but from Handel’s expansive Dettingen Te Deum of 1743. Both scores were written in Greene’s capacity as Organist and Composer to His Majesty’s Chapel Royal, to welcome the king back to London from Hanover, though the setting from 1750 was omitted from the celebrations, and as far as is known is yet to receive its first performance.