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BERLIOZ (Hector). Autograph musical manuscript...

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BERLIOZ (Hector). Autograph musical manuscript signed "Hector Berlioz", entitled "Final[e] d'un Te Deum". 3 staves for voice, i.e. 9 bars, with lyrics, on a hand-ruled oblong sheet in-8, probably taken from an album amicorum, framed under glass with photographic portrait of the composer. The bass line of the 1st chorus of the Judex crederis of his monumental Te Deum, composed between 1846 and 1849, completed in 1852, and premiered in 1855 in the church of Saint-Eustache in Paris for the inauguration of the Universal Exhibition.