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".

Setting by composers

• 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.
• 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)

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Henry Bird Collins — Domine salvum fac
• Charles Gounod — Domine salvam fac Reginam Victoriam, CG 135
• Alphonse Hoch — Domine salvam fac rempublicam
• Hans Koessler — Salvum fac regem

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.