1.3K views · 53 reactions | Arnold Schoenberg - Friede Auf Erden Te Deum Chamber Choir Matthew Christopher Shepard, conductor Live performance, April 10, 2016 Village Presbyterian Church, Prairie Village, Kansas www.te-deum.org Check more about Te Deum Chamber Choir here: https://www.youtube.com/user/TeDeumChamberChoir | History of Music | Facebook

This spectacular timpani solo under the stained glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris serves as a surprising introduction to one of those pieces of music that everyone knows, even if most people don't know who it's from. This is the beginning of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Te Deum (1692) in a version by Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie. | History of Music