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Inno delle nazioni
1862 cantata by Giuseppe Verdi / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Inno delle nazioni (Hymn of the nations), a cantata in a single movement, is one of only two secular choral works composed by Giuseppe Verdi. This Hymn incorporates "God Save the King", "La Marseillaise", and "Il Canto degli Italiani". It was the first collaboration between the composer and Arrigo Boito, who, much later, would revise the libretto of Simon Boccanegra and write the original libretti of Otello and Falstaff.
Inno delle nazioni | |
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Cantata by Giuseppe Verdi | |
![]() Cover of first edition of the vocal score of the hymn (design by Alessandro or Robert Focosi) | |
Occasion | 1862 International Exhibition |
Text | by Arrigo Boito |
Language | Italian, with portions in English and French |
Composed | 1862 (1862) |
Performed | 24 May 1862 (1862-05-24): Her Majesty's Theatre, London |
Scoring | solo tenor, chorus and orchestra |
Although written for the 1862 International Exhibition in London, it premiered at Her Majesty's Theatre on 24 May 1862. It became the centerpiece of a 1944 propaganda film, Hymn of the Nations, where it was performed by the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini with the Westminster Choir and Jan Peerce as tenor soloist.