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Dona nobis pacem (English: Grant us peace) is a cantata written by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1936 and first performed on 2 October of that year. The work was commissioned to mark the centenary of the Huddersfield Choral Society. Vaughan Williams produced his plea for peace by referring to recent wars during the growing fears of a new one.
Title. A cantata for soprano and baritone soli, chorus, and orchestra. Name Translations. Dona nobis pacem; Dona nobis pacem (Vaughan Williams) Authorities. WorldCat; Wikipedia; VIAF: 176406711; LCCN: no96045741; GND: 300280327; BNF: 140398043. Composer. Vaughan Williams, Ralph. I-Catalogue Number.
- Dona Nobis Pacem
Feb 11, 2014 · Dona Nobis Pacem Ralph Vaughan Williams has come to be regarded as one of the finest British composers of the 20th century. He has a particularly wide-ranging catalogue of works, including choral works, symphonies, concerti, and opera.
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Serenade to Music is an orchestral concert work completed in 1938 by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, written as a tribute to conductor Sir Henry Wood. It features an orchestra and 16 vocal soloists, with lyrics adapted from the discussion about music and the music of the spheres from Act V, Scene I from the play The Merchant of Venice ...
The Dona Nobis Pacem, an impassioned anti-war cantata (1936) is a combination of both, with words from Whitman and others juxtaposed with extracts from the Latin mass, anticipating a similar mixture of sacred and secular text in Britten's War Requiem twenty-five years later. Stage works
