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"Le Chant des chemins de fer (The Song of the Railways) is a cantata in B minor by Hector Berlioz for tenor solo, choir and orchestra composed in June 1846 on lyrics by Jules Janin and premiered June 14 1846 for the inauguration of the gare de Lille. Circumstances of the composition The work was commissioned by the city of Lille. According to his correspondence, Berlioz composed it in a hurry in three nights, interrupting the writing of La Damnation de Faust. Berlioz, who travelled on the inaugural train, spent eight days in Lille and conducted Le Chant des chemins de fer and at the same time the finale of his Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale leading a military orchestra of 150 wind instrumentalists and singers from the Conservatoire de Lille.Berlioz à Lille Berlioz had asked that the final chord be punctuated by a cannonade that could not take place.Les Grotesques de La musique Lyrics The text is by Jules Janin, a friend of Berlioz and saint-simonian.La musique et l'utopie du rail Berlioz supposedly had been enthusiastic at that time about Saint-Simonianism.Social song and ways of utopia on The Hector Berlioz Website Music The music is nervous and vigorous, the orchestration bouncing. The cantata also includes a prayer, '. The whole may sound grandiloquent and heavy. The interpretation of the three verses and chorus takes about 9 minutes. Legacy The work was incorporated with other compositions under Opus 19 No. 3, Album leaf. It is rarely played. One of the performances is that of the symphony orchestra of the SNCF with the choirs of the Oratory on the occasion of a Congress of the "Association internationale du congrès des chemins de fer" (AICCF) in 1966.Listen onlineNotice in English The work was performed for the opening ceremony of Lille 2004 "European Capital of Culture". References External links * Chant des chemins de fer on IMSLP * Jean Dupouy sings Le Chant des Chemins de Fer YouTube Cantatas 1846 songs Compositions by Hector Berlioz "
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"Adalberto Costa Júnior (born 8 May 1962) is an Angolan politician, current president of UNITA and a member of the National Assembly of Angola.Adalberto Costa Júnior. Assembleia Nacional de Angola. Retrieved 24 November 2018. He trained in electrotechnical engineering at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto and in public ethics at the Gregorian University in Rome. He has campaigned against public corruption. In November 2019, Júnior was elected as president of the UNITA, ending Isaias Samakuva's 16-year term. References External links * Living people Angolan politicians Members of the National Assembly (Angola) UNITA politicians 1962 births "