Te Deum (Furtwängler)

The Te Deum for solos, choir and orchestra by the German composer Wilhelm Furtwängler was created in the years before 1910, and it was premiered in 1910 in Breslau. It is the final work of the composer's early creative period, before he turned increasingly to conducting and did not complete any further compositions until 1935.

The piece, which lasts about half an hour, is composed in one large movement. Bruckner's Te Deum can be seen as a significant model, the massive and solemn expression of which Furtwängler is apparently still striving to surpass. The composer planned a revision towards the end of his life, but could only make sketches. At the request of his widow Elisabeth, Kurt Hessenberg, who was once sponsored by Furtwängler , posthumously created a new version based on the drafts, which premiered in 1967 under Hans Chemin-Petit in Berlin.