nine o’clock
Call me capricious if you will , for desiring to hear this music to-morrow . I have so long been controlled by stern realities , that I will allow myself now to yield to a caprice . '' He gave his hand to the marquis , who pressed it to his lips . `` Sire , to-morrow morning at nine o'clock the Te Deum shall be performed in the chapel , should I even be compelled to pass the night in arousing the musicians from their beds . '' The marquis kept his word ; he surmounted all difficulties , removed all objections . In vain Benda declared the organ in the chapel was out of tune , the performance impossible ; the marquis hastened to the organist and obliged him to put it in order that night . In vain the singers protested against singing this difficult music before the king without preparation ; D'Argens commanded them in the name of the king to have a rehearsal during the night .