Hector Berlioz - Veni creator, H. 141 (c. 1868)

Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requiem and L'Enfance du Christ, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette and the "dramatic legend" La Damnation de Faust.

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Motet "Veni creator", H. 141 (c. 1860-68)
Librettist: attributed to Rabanus Maurus (c.780–856)

Choeur Les Éléments conducted by Michel Plasson

SSA with SSA soloists, a cappella (but Berlioz permits organ doubling voices ad libitum).

Over the centuries, Veni Creator Spiritus has inspired the following works by notable composers, in approximate chronological order:

Jehan Titelouze, Veni creator (1623)[
Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, "L'hymne de la Pentecôte" in his 2e Livre d'Orgue (1667)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 5 settings:
Veni creator Spiritus, H.54, for 3 voices (or chorus), 2 violins and continuo
(1670s)
Veni creator Spiritus, H.66, for soloists, chorus, flutes, bassoons, strings
and continuo (1680s)
Veni creator Spiritus, H.69, for 1 voice and continuo (1690 ca.)[17]
Veni creator Spiritus, H.70, for 1 voice and continuo (1690)[18]
Veni creator Spiritus, H.362, for 3 voices and continuo (early 1690s?)[19]
Michel-Richard Delalande, Veni creator Spiritus S 14 (1689) or S 14 bis (1684)
Johann Pachelbel, chorale prelude for organ, on "Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist" (1693)
Nicolas de Grigny, Veni creator en taille à 5, fugue à 5 for organ (5 versets) (1699)
Henry Desmarest, Veni creator, for soloists, chorus and orchestra (early 1700s)
Johann Gottfried Walther, chorale prelude for organ, on "Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist" (early 1700s)
Johann Sebastian Bach harmonized "Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist" for his four-part chorale BWV 370, and also used the tune as the basis for his chorale prelude for organ BWV 631 (1708–1717), which he later extended as BWV 667 (1750).
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Veni creator (1723)
Ferdinando Bertoni, Veni creator (1765)
François Giroust, Veni creator à 4 voix et orchestre (1787)
Camille Saint-Saëns, Veni creator à 4 voix (1858)
Hector Berlioz, Veni creator à cappella H 141 (c.1861–1868), a motet for women's voices to the Latin text
César Franck, Veni creator for two voices (TB) and organ, FWV 68 (1876)
Anton Bruckner harmonized the original tune for voice and organ as his motet WAB 50 (c. 1884).
Augusta Holmès, Veni creator for tenor and mixed chorus, IAH 74 (1887)
Alexandre Guilmant, organ works in L'Organiste liturgiste, Op. 65, Book 1 (1884) and Book 10 (1899)
Gustav Mahler set the Latin text to music in Part I of his Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major (1906).
Filippo Capocci, Organ Fantasia on Veni Creator Spiritus (1910)
Maurice Duruflé used the chant tune as the basis for his symphonic organ composition "Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié sur le thème du Veni Creator", Op. 4 (1926/1930).
Charles Tournemire, L'Orgue Mystique: In Festo Pentecostes, No. 25, Op. 56 (1928), Deux Fresques Symphoniques Sacrées II, Op. 76 (1939)
Karol Szymanowski, Veni creator for soprano, mixed chorus, organ and orchestra, Op. 57 (1930)
Gaston Litaize, Toccata sur le Veni Creator, for organ (1934)
Marcel Dupré, "Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist" among his organ settings of 79 Chorales, Op. 28, No. 46 (1931), and Veni creator in the organ suite Le Tombeau de Titelouze, Op. 38, No. 8 (1942)
Jeanne Demessieux, Veni creator, Toccata for Organ (1947)
Zoltán Gárdonyi, Partita for Organ Veni creator spiritus (1958)
Paul Hindemith concluded his Concerto for Organ and Orchestra with a Phantasy on Veni Creator Spiritus (1962).
Krzysztof Penderecki wrote a motet for mixed choir (1987).
Hilliard Ensemble recorded it on the album "Perotin" (1989).
Cristóbal Halffter set the text for chorus and orchestra (1992).
Petr Eben, Toccata for Piano after Gregorian chant Veni creator spiritus (1996)
Karlheinz Stockhausen used the text in the second hour of his Klang cycle (2005), in a piece for two singing harpists titled Freude (Joy), Op. 82.
Arvo Pärt, Veni creator (2006)
Zsolt Gárdonyi, Toccata for Organ Veni creator spiritus (2020)
Dan Forrest used several lines from the text in his symphonic oratorio CREATION (2023), including the first Introit and tenth Ish Ishah movements.