HORTENSE - DE VERGETEN KONINGIN VAN  HOLLAND,  THERA COPPENS

HORTENSE - KöNIGIN VON  HOLLAND UND KOMPONISTIN,  THERA COPPENS

MUZIEKLEVEN AAN HET HOF VAN LODEWIJK NAPOLEON, HELEN MARRES-SCHRETLEN

DAS MUSIKLEBEN AM HOFE KöNIG LUDWIG NAPOLEONS, HELEN MARRES-SCHRETLEN

HORTENSE - REINE DE PAYS-BAS ET  COMPOSITEUR,  THERA COPPENS

LA REINE HORTENSE

PARTANT POUR LA SYRIE

Partant pour la Syrie (Departing for Syria) is a French song the music of which was written by Hortense de Beauharnais and the text by Alexandre de Laborde in or about 1807.

The song was popular during the remainder of the First Empire, popular with Hortense in her exile, and with the bonapartists during the Bourbon Restoration. During the Second Empire Partant pour la Syrie was the unofficial national anthem, while La Marsaillaise was forbidden but for the very end. With the collapse of Napoleon III’s rule the popularity of the song waned. The song was played to the emperor Napoleon III as he departed from Schloss Wilhelmshöhe to his exile in England in 1871. It remains part of the repertoire of French military music

Sébastien Erard (1752-1831) et Jean-Baptiste Erard ( 1749-1826)

Partant pour la Syrie - Anke Anderson

Harp: Sébastian & Pierre Erard’s. 18 Marlborough Street London

Patent no 6159, No. 5159 (1826)

FORTEPIANOS OP HET PALEIS OP DE DAM, HELEN MARRES-SCHRETLEN / HANS MEIJER