Chandos Jubilate
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chandos Jubilate, HWV246, is a common name for a choral composition by George Frideric Handel. It was published as the first of the Chandos Anthems, and is known also as Chandos Anthem No. 1 and as Jubilate in D Major. A setting of Psalm 100, "O, be joyful in the Lord", it is the first in a series of church anthems that Handel composed between 1717 and 1718, when he was composer in residence to James Brydges, later 1st Duke of Chandos.[1] The anthem was probably first performed at St. Lawrence's church, Whitchurch, near Brydges' country house.[2] The work is written for a small ensemble of instrumentalists, solo singers and choir, and is approximately twenty minutes in length.[3][4]