Motets of Jean-Philippe Branch
These Motet S for great chorus, soloists, organ and orchestra, was composed on texts extracted the Psaume S by Jean-Philippe Rameau , before its arrival with Paris in 1723. They are thus former to the large profane parts which made the celebrity of the type-setter. They were probably more often played like parts in concerts than like musics of church. The Concert of sacred music, musical institution located with the Palate of Tileries, in interpreted some besides after 1750. Besides some parts minor of youth, it is about only the religious compositions of the musician who however spent many years like Organiste of church.
One knows 3 complete ( Deus noster refugium , In convertendo and Quam dilecta ), the fragments of some others (of which the Laboravi ) and of the parts of more doubtful attribution.
They each one are divided into several numbers (chorus, solo, duet…) in the line of the French motet whose famous predecessors are Henry Of the Mount, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Michel-Richard Delalande.
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