hymn
noun
a song or ode in praise or honor of God, a deity, a nation, etc.
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For not only was Beethoven the great classic presence of the German concert hall, and deemed, in the words of Lanier, the "dear living lord of tone," the "sole hymner of the whole of life."
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld