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Track(s) taken from CDH55371

An die Freude, K53

First line:
Freude, Königin der Weisen
composer
early December 1768; Vienna; also catalogued as K47e
author of text

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Recording details: June 1997
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: October 1998
Total duration: 3 minutes 34 seconds

Cover artwork: Initiation ceremony in a Viennese Masonic Lodge during the reign of Joseph II (1784). Ignaz Unterberger (1748-1797)
Historisches Museum der Stadt Vienna / Bridgeman Images
 

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