Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Canticle or Freedom (1955)

for mixed choir and orchestra

  • General information
    • Composition date : 1955
      Revision dates : 1965
    • Duration : 13 mn
    • Publisher : Boosey & Hawkes
    • Libretto (details, author) :

      John Barbour

Detailed formation
  • mixed choir
  • 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes (also 1 English horn [ad lib.] ), 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 4 percussionists, harp, strings

Premiere information

  • Date : 8 May 1955
    Location :

    États-Unis, Cambridge, MA


    Performers :

    le chœur et l'orchestre du MIT, direction : Klaus Liepmann.

  • Date : 19 October 1967
    Location :

    Canada, Atlanta


    Performers :

    l'Orchestre symphonique d'Atlanta, direction : Robert Shaw.