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Jubilate Deo is a setting of Psalm 100 for four-part choir. The lively, syncopated opening section contains rapid echoing of motifs among the voices; this yields to a more lyrical idea at Populus eius, et oves pasquae eius. The first section returns in varied form, leading to a variant of the lyrical idea at quoniam suavis est Dominus. A fugal coda, based on the opening idea, concludes the work.
Written at the request of Sonja van der Walt for the Stellenbosch University Choir.
Hendrik Hofmeyr was born in Cape Town in 1957. His first major success as a composer came in 1988 with the performance at the State Theatre of The Fall of the House of Usher, which won the South African Opera Competition and was also awarded the Nederburg Opera Prize. In 1992 he accepted a post as lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch, and in 1997 won two further international competitions, the Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium (with Raptus for violin and orchestra) and the Dimitri Mitropoulos Competition in Athens (with Byzantium for high voice and orchestra). Hofmeyr is currently professor and Head of Composition and Music Theory at the University of Cape Town. Hofmeyr’s oeuvre comprises six operas, two ballets, two symphonies, thirteen concerti and numerous vocal and instrumental works, and includes some 130 commission works.
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