Domine salvum fac

General information

In France it became customary to end every Mass with Domine salvum fac regem ("God save the King"). With the feminine form "salvam" one can substitute "Reginam nostram Elizabetham" as well as "ecclesiam", "rem publicam" or "Galliam".

Notes on selected settings

Luigi Bordèse SA & organ Dietrich Buxtehude BuxWV 18 SSATB 5-part strings Marc-Antoine Charpentier H.3, Messe a 8 vois et 8 violons et flutes H. 283 à 2 choeurs H. 284 TTB & bc H. 285 a 16 H. 305 SAT orch. Domine, Salvum fac (Henry Bird Collins) SATB Giuseppe Concone SATB & organ François Couperin

Théodore Dubois (Messe de la Délivrance) ("Rempublicam") Henri Du Mont SATB bc Charles Gounod Deuxième Messe ("Imperatorem") TTBB & organ Carl Loewe Franz Liszt TTBB, tenor solo & organ (adds "salvum fac magnem Ducem") Jean-Baptiste Lully LWV 77.14 SAA & bc Domine salvum fac (Jean Maillard) STTB (a lengthy variant) Giovanni Battista Martini SATB & organ (arr. Lutz, "Reginam") Jean Mouton a 4 John Knowles Paine, Op. 8 (…praesidem nostrum)

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Dietrich Buxtehude — Domine salvum fac Regem  Latin SSATB
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier — Messe a 8 vois et 8 violons et flutes (H.3)  Latin SATB.SATB
• Henry Bird Collins — Domine salvum fac  Latin SATB
• Charles Gounod — Deuxième Messe  Latin TTBB
• Charles Gounod — Domine salvam fac Reginam Victoriam, CG 135  Latin SATB
• Alphonse Hoch — Domine salvam fac rempublicam  Latin SATB
• Hans Koessler — Salvum fac regem  Latin TTBB
• Henri Du Mont — Domine salvum fac Regem  Latin SATB

Text and translations

Latin text Domine, salvam fac Ecclesiam [regem nostrum/rempublicam]! Et exaudi nos in die qua invocaverimus te.

English translation Lord, save the church [our king/republic]! And hear us when we call upon you.