Domine salvum fac
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General information
In France it became customary to end every Mass with Domine salvum fac regem ("God save the King"). With the feminine form "salvam" one can substitute "reginem" as well as "ecclesiam" "rem publican" or "Gallicam".
Setting by composers
- Luigi Bordèse SA & organ
- Dietrich Buxtehude BuxWV 18 SSATB 5-part strings
- Marc Antoine Charpentier
- H. 283 à 2 choeurs
- H. 284 TTB & bc
- H. 285 a 16
- H. 305 SAT orch.
- Giuseppe Concone SATB & organ
- François Couperin
- Théodore Dubois (Messe de la Délivrance) ("Rempublicam")
- Charles Gounod
- Carl Loewe
- Franz Liszt TTBB, tenor solo & organ (adds "salvum fac magnem Ducem")
- Jean-Baptiste Lully LWV 77.14 SAA & bc
- Domine salvum fac (Jean Maillard) STTB (a lengthy variant)
- Giovanni Battista Martini SATB & organ (arr. Lutz, "Reginam")
- Jean Mouton a 4
- John Knowles Paine, Op. 8 (...praesidem nostrum)
Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above
- Henry Bird Collins — Domine salvum fac
- Charles Gounod — Domine salvam fac Reginam Victoriam, CG 135
- Alphonse Hoch — Domine salvam fac rempublicam
- Hans Koessler — Salvum fac regem
Text and translations
Latin text Domine, salvam fac Ecclesiam [regem nostrum/rempublicam]! |
English translation Lord, save the church [our king/republic]! |