Inno e Marcia Pontificale
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|
Inno e Marcia Pontificale (instrumental) Image:United States Navy Band - Inno e Marcia Pontificale.ogg Problems listening to the file? See media help. Marche Pontificale (Papal March)[1] is the name of an instrumental piece of music composed by Charles Gounod (1818-1893) for the celebration on 11 April 1869 of Pope Pius IX's silver jubilee of priestly ordination. At the opening of the 1950 Holy Year (24 December 1949), this music replaced the previous papal anthem, and since then is known also as the Papal Anthem (in Italian, Inno Pontificale).[2] and is also called in Italian Inno e Marcia Pontificale (Papal Anthem and March).[3] An account of the history of the composition can be found on the Web site of the Vatican City State, at Pontifical Anthem and its story". The site states that the music is not a national anthem, but a pontifical or papal anthem. It thus corresponds, in United States terms, rather to "Hail to the Chief" than to "The Star-Spangled Banner". This statement is found also on the Web site of the Holy See at Inno Pontificio e la sua storia.
LyricsLike the Spanish national anthem, Gounod's Papal March has no official words, but lyrics have been composed for the music, and are sometimes sung to it. Two such texts are given on the Holy See's Web site at Inno Pontificio Italian composition by Antonio AllegraIn 1949, Monsignor Antonio Allegra (1905-1969), who was then one of the organists of St. Peter’s Basilica, wrote the following words for the music:[4]
Latin composition by Raffaello LavagnaIn 1991, Monsignor Raffaello Lavagna of Savona (born 1918), wrote the following Latin words to be sung to an arrangement of the music by Alberico Vitalini for four-voice choir:[5]
The score of a longer Latin text by the same writer and a more elaborate musical arrangement by the same composer is given at Score for choir of four voices by Alberico Vitalini with original Latin text by Monsignor Raffaello Lavagna. This is clearly not meant for unison singing. Other versionsOther lyrics also have been written in various languages for the music of the Papal March, sometimes not directly related to the papacy, as in Monsignor Rudy Villanueva's Cebuano prayer, Yutang Tabonon (Beloved Land), for protection for the Philippines nation. Previous papal anthemThe previous papal anthem was the Triumphal March, composed in 1857 by the Austrian Viktorin Hallmayer (born on 5 September 1831 at Anthering bei Salzburg, died on 9 May 1872). Hallmayer was then director of the band of the 47th Infantry Regiment of the Line, known as the Count Kinsky Regiment, stationed within the Papal States. It was played for the first time on the evening of 9 June 1857, to celebrate the entry of Pope Pius IX into Bologna. It proved immediately popular and was used repeatedly during that journey of the Pope to several central Italian cities, including Florence, and on his return to Rome on 5 September 1857. This was the music that was played in the streets of Rome to celebrate the Reconciliation between the papacy and the Kingdom of Italy on 11 February 1929 and the end of the Roman Question. The words that were sung to this music were:
Reference
MediaExternal links
da:Inno e Marcia Pontificale de:Inno e Marcia Pontificale el:Inno e Marcia Pontificale es:Inno e Marcia Pontificale fr:Inno e Marcia Pontificale ko:바티칸 시국의 국가 hr:Inno e Marcia Pontificale it:Inno e Marcia Pontificale la:Hymnus et modus militaris Pontificalis hu:Inno e Marcia Pontificale ms:Inno e Marcia Pontificale nl:Inno e Marcia Pontificale ja:賛歌と教皇の行進曲 pl:Hymn Watykanu pt:Hino nacional da Cidade do Vaticano ro:Inno e Marcia Pontificale ru:Гимн Ватикана simple:Inno e Marcia Pontificale sr:Химна Ватикана fi:Inno e Marcia Pontificale sv:Inno e Marcia Pontificale vi:Inno e Marcia Pontificale |
