Cantique de Jean Racine (Op. 11) is a work for mixed chorus by Gabriel Fauré when he was nineteen years old in (1864-5). The Cantique is a setting of words by the 17th century poet Jean Racine with it's four-part choral arrangement of the stanzas of Racine's prayer -- "Word of God, one with the Most-High.... Pour on us the fire of thy mighty grace" In 1865, a young Fauré became the organist at Saint-Saveur de Rennes , France. Choirpart, Choir-Practice, Soprano
