"movement sets an autumnal mood for the rest of the composition. One phrase, towards the middle played by the clarinet, sounds closely related to one in the first movement of Carl Maria von Weber's Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor. This was possibly inserted because when Brahms listened to Richard Mühlfeld at his recital, he was playing this concerto. The bowed strings are played with mutes (con sordino) throughout the movement. Mainly in B major, the reflective melody is first introduced by the clarinet, and is sometimes chromatic with some shifts to B minor. The middle section is in"
"public teacher of the choir of St. Anna, Joseph Drechsler. As a boy, Ferdinand played violin in the Schubert family string quartet, with his brothers Franz and Ignaz on viola and violin and his father on cello. Franz Schubert composed many of his early string quartets for this ensemble. In 1810, Schubert became organist at the Lichtentaler Parish and was also assistant teacher at an orphanage in Vienna. Four years later, in 1816, he was promoted to full-time teacher at the orphanage. In that year, Schubert married one of his students, Anna. In 1818, Franz Schubert composed the German Requiem"
"Leipzig, and professor of composition and piano at the Conservatorium. He led the orchestra for more than three decades, until 1895. He conducted premieres such as the full seven-movement version of Brahms's ""A German Requiem"" (1869). In 1865 the Gewandhaus-Quartett premiered Brahms' piano quintet, and in 1892 his D major string quartet. Reinecke is best known for his flute sonata ""Undine"", but he is also remembered as one of the most influential and versatile musicians of his time. He served as a teacher for 35 years, until his retirement in 1902. His students included Edvard Grieg, Basil Harwood, Charles Villiers"
"Stein, his friend and later biographer, that he was in the middle of its composition, but had been interrupted after the line ""statuens in parte dextra"". The ""Lateinisches Requiem"" is scored for soloists (soprano, alto, tenor, bass), a four-part (SATB) choir, three flutes (also piccolo), two oboes, cor anglais, two clarinets, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, three percussionists and strings. It is Reger's only choral composition to use four soloists. The four """" are used like the several choirs in compositions by Heinrich Schütz. The first movement opens with a long organ pedal point, which"
"the Requiem and make it a ""...secular, multicultural piece, an act of brotherly love that was written, 'in memoriam Michael Vyner,'whose name does duty for all the many other people in the world who have died before their time and whose sufferings and passing are mourned in my music.""(471) Length: Approx. 70 Minutes<br> Publisher: Schott<br> Dedication: in memoriam Michael Vyner<br> Full Title: Requiem: Nine Sacred Concertos for Piano Solo, Trumpet Concertante and large Chamber Orchestra February 24, 1993, Philharmonic Hall, Cologne Ensemble Modern Requiem (Henze) Hans Werner Henze composed the nine Sacred Concertos that comprise his Requiem over the course"
"orchestra). This group produces a very strange, distant sound. The soprano and choir and the boys' choir sing the traditional Latin Requiem text, while the tenor and baritone sing poems by Wilfred Owen, interspersed throughout. The full orchestra consists of three flutes (third doubling piccolo), two oboes, English horn, three clarinets (third doubling E-flat clarinet and bass clarinet), two bassoons and contrabassoon, six horns, four trumpets in C, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (four players: two antique cymbals (C & F#), glockenspiel, gong, bells (C & F#), vibraphone, cymbals, triangle, castanets, Chinese blocks, whip, bass drum, two side drums, tambourine,"
"scored for the basset clarinet. Recordings of the work by Dieter Klöcker (on Novalis) on ""normal clarinet"" and by Thea King (on Hyperion) in a reconstructed version for basset clarinet by Michael Freyhan are available. Books Articles Editions Franz Xaver Süssmayr Franz Xaver Süssmayr (German: ""Franz Xaver Süßmayr"" or ""Suessmayr"" in English; 1766 – September 17, 1803) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Popular in his day, he is now known primarily as the composer who completed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's unfinished Requiem. In addition, there have been performances of Süssmayr's operas at Kremsmünster, and his secular political cantata (1796), ""Der"
"wrote settings for piano and voice of 144 German folk songs, and many of his lieder reflect folk themes or depict scenes of rural life. Brahms wrote a number of major works for orchestra, including two Serenades, four symphonies, two piano concertos (No. 1 in D minor; No. 2 in B-flat major), a Violin Concerto, a Double Concerto for violin and cello, and two companion orchestral overtures, the ""Academic Festival Overture"" and the ""Tragic Overture"". His large choral work ""A German Requiem"" is not a setting of the liturgical ""Missa pro defunctis"" but a setting of texts which Brahms selected"
"theme by Wittgenstein's old teacher, Josef Labor. His failure to complete the cantata is likely to be a further indication that he was not committed to the Nazi cause; such, at any rate, was the opinion of his friend Oskar Adler. Operas Oratorio Cantata Symphonies Piano Concerti Various Orchestral Works Chamber music Music for Trumpets Music for Organ and Trumpet Piano music Organ works Franz Schmidt Franz Schmidt (22 December 187411 February 1939) was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist. Schmidt was born in Pozsony (known in German as Pressburg), in the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (the city"
"them throughout his life. He was deeply affected by the World War and wrote an unfinished Latin Requiem in 1914 and the setting ""Requiem"" of a German poem in 1915, thinking of the victims of the battles. He composed next the seven pieces for organ in Jena, based on Christian hymns. He wrote numbers 1–3 in July 1915, then additionally, on a request by the publisher, 4–6 in October 1915, and the final 7th in February and March 1916. in 1900 Reger commented to his friend, the organist Gustav Beckmann, on the commonly held view of the difficulty of his"
"Requiem with two complete psalms, Psalm 130 ""Out of the deep"" and his earlier composition ""The Lord is my Shepherd"", and juxtaposes more biblical verses within the Latin movements. Some composers have written purely instrumental works bearing the title of ""Requiem"", as famously exemplified by Britten's ""Sinfonia da Requiem"". Hans Werner Henze's ""Das Floß der Medusa"", written in 1968 as a requiem for Che Guevara, is properly speaking an oratorio; Henze's Requiem is instrumental but retains the traditional Latin titles for the movements. Igor Stravinsky's ""Requiem Canticles"" mixes instrumental movements with segments of the ""Introit"", ""Dies irae"", ""Pie Jesu"" and"
"of Arnold Schoenberg’s ""Moses und Aron"" under Pierre Boulez and Johannes Brahms’s ""A German Requiem"" under Daniel Barenboim while performing at the Berlin Festtage in April 1999. Chicago Symphony Orchestra recordings featuring the Chorus have won ten Grammy Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for best choral performance. These recordings include hallmarks of the choral repertoire, ranging from Ludwig van Beethoven’s ""Missa solemnis"" to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B Minor, and two recordings each of Brahms’s ""A German Requiem"" and Verdi's Requiem. Women of the Chorus (prepared by Duain Wolfe) appeared on the recording of"
"Requiem (Mozart) The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Mozart composed part of the Requiem in Vienna in late 1791, but it was unfinished at his death on 5 December the same year. A completed version dated 1792 by Franz Xaver Süssmayr was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg, who commissioned the piece for a Requiem service to commemorate the anniversary of his wife's death on 14 February. The autograph manuscript shows the finished and orchestrated Introit in Mozart's hand, and detailed drafts of the Kyrie and the sequence Dies irae"
"Brahms, with whom he corresponded, he was responsible for the Bremen performance of ""A German Requiem"". Reinthaler also conducted the premiere of the revised version of Max Bruch's first violin concerto in January 1868. In later years, Reinthaler required a wheel chair, which limited his appearances in public musical scenes. He died in Bremen. Carl Martin Reinthaler Carl Martin Reinthaler (13 October 1822 – 13 February 1896) was a German organist, conductor and composer. Alternative spellings include Karl Martin Reinthaler and Carl Martin Rheinthaler. Reinthaler was born in Erfurt. He received his first music education from August Gottfried Ritter, an"
"sonatas, string trio (1928), a flute sonata, four woodwind quintets, a string quartet (in G minor, his opus 51), a comic opera ""Die Fünfuhrthee"" (""The Five-o'Clock Tea"") (produced in Berlin and in Bremen in 1912) and a symphonic poem ""Erlösung"". Some of his chamber music has been recorded on three CDs on the label Crystal Records. Theodor Blumer Theodor Anton Blumer (24 March 1881 – 21 September 1964) was a German composer and conductor. Blumer was born in Dresden. He studied composition with Felix Draeseke and W. Brookman at the Dresden Conservatory. In 1931 he became the conductor of the"
"Requiem (Reger) Max Reger's 1915 Requiem (or the Hebbel Requiem), , is a late Romantic setting of Friedrich Hebbel's poem ""Requiem"" for alto or baritone solo, chorus and orchestra. It is Reger's last completed work for chorus and orchestra, dedicated in the autograph as "" (To the memory of the German heroes who fell in the 1914/15 War). Reger had composed Requiem settings before: his 1912 motet for male chorus, published as the final part of his , uses the same poem, and in 1914 he set out to compose a choral work in memory of the victims of the"
"Requiem (Bruckner) The Requiem in D minor, WAB 39, is a ""Missa pro defunctis"" composed by Anton Bruckner in 1849. The Requiem in D minor, a setting of the ""Missa pro defunctis"" for mixed choir, vocal soloists, three trombones, one horn, strings and organ with figured bass, was composed by Bruckner in memory of Franz Sailer, the notary of the St. Florian Monastery, who bequeathed Bruckner a Bösendorfer piano. The Requiem was premiered on 15 September 1849 in the St. Florian Monastery, a year after Sailer's death. A second performance occurred on 11 December 1849 in the Abbey of Kremsmünster."
"Richard Mühlfeld Richard Bernhard Herrmann Mühlfeld (February 28, 1856 – June 1, 1907) was a German clarinettist who inspired Johannes Brahms and Gustav Jenner to write chamber works including the instrument. The pieces that Brahms wrote for him are the ""Clarinet Trio"", the Clarinet Quintet, and the Clarinet Sonatas. Mühlfeld originally joined the Meiningen Court Orchestra (Hofkapelle) as a violinist and changed to the clarinet three years later. Following the completion of Brahms's String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111, the composer decided to end his compositional career. After Brahms listened to Mühlfeld play Weber's Clarinet Concerto No."
"Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status"
"Requiem (Henze) Hans Werner Henze composed the nine Sacred Concertos that comprise his Requiem over the course of three years from 1991 to 1993 on commissions from the London Sinfonietta, Suntory Corporation for the NHK Philharmonic, and Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne. The first movement, ""Introitus: Requiem Aeternam"" was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta as part of a memorial concert for Artistic Director Michael Vyner who died on 20 October 1989. In addition to Henze, the London Sinfonietta also commissioned seven other prominent composers (Luciano Berio, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Toru Takemitsu, Oliver Knussen, and Nigel Osborne) to write"
"a very personal work and I think it's the best work I've composed."" Requiem (Rouse) Requiem is a composition for solo baritone, children's choir, chorus, and orchestra by the American composer Christopher Rouse. The piece was commissioned by Soli Deo Gloria for the 2003 bicentennial of the birth of French composer Hector Berlioz. It was completed July 12, 2002 and premiered March 25, 2007 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, with conductor Grant Gershon leading the Los Angeles Master Chorale and their orchestra, the Los Angeles Children's Chorus, and baritone solo Sanford Sylvan. The duration of the"
"the longest part of the work, is scored for SSATTB (2 sopranos, alto, 2 tenors, bass) chorus alternating with small ensembles of soloists. Part II is scored for double choir SATB SATB, and part III for SATTB choir and a trio of soloists. All movements are accompanied by basso continuo. The work was not well known to Brahms, though his German Requiem is remarkably similar in content. The work was the first requiem in the German language. There have been many recordings, making the Exequien the most recorded work of 17th-century German vocal music. Among the recordings: Musikalische Exequien Musikalische"
"and Patrick Douglas. Jean-Philippe Rameau composed ""In convertendo Dominus"" c. 1710 for choir and orchestra. Jules Van Nuffel wrote a setting for mixed choir and organ as his Op. 32 in 1926. Giovanni Bernardino Nanino set alternate verses for a cappella choir. In German, verses 5 and 6 were set by Johannes Brahms in the first movement of ""A German Requiem"", for choir and orchestra. Other German partial settings were made by Heinrich Schütz, Johann Hermann Schein and Heinrich Hartmann. Verses of the psalm have been set in English by composers including William Byrd and Charles Villiers Stanford. In 1998,"
"and students of the Kronberg Academy, conducted by Frans Helmerson. Polish Requiem Polish Requiem (original Polish title: Requiem; ), also A Polish Requiem, is a large-scale requiem mass for soloists, mixed choir and orchestra by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. The Lacrimosa, dedicated to the trade union leader Lech Wałęsa, was written for the unveiling of a statue at the to commemorate those killed in the Polish anti-government riots in 1970. He expanded the work into a requiem, writing other parts to honour different patriotic events over the next four years. The ""Polish Requiem"" was first performed in Stuttgart on"
"the ensemble. The Requiem was published by Peermusic's Hamburg branch in 2007. Their description page (and the NUKAT description) note that the work requires soprano, children's chorus, mixed chorus, and full orchestra. The score is headed by an excerpt of a short poem by Aleksandr Tvardovsky: Requiem (Weinberg) Mieczyslaw Weinberg composed his Requiem Op. 96 between 1965 and 1967. Like other Soviet Requiems such as Dmitri Kabalevsky's it does not set to music the Roman Rite liturgy, but secular poems by Mikhail Dudin, Munetoshi Fukugawa, Federico García Lorca, Dmitri Kedrin and Sara Teasdale. The use of anti-war texts links this"
"aeternam"" (two different settings), and ""I heard a voice from heaven."" Some composers have written purely instrumental works bearing the title of ""requiem"", as famously exemplified by Britten's ""Sinfonia da Requiem"". Hans Werner Henze's ""Das Floß der Medusa"", written in 1968 as a requiem for Che Guevara, is properly speaking an oratorio; Henze's Requiem is instrumental but retains the traditional Latin titles for the movements. Igor Stravinsky's ""Requiem canticles"" mixes instrumental movements with segments of the ""Introit,"" ""Dies irae,"" ""Pie Jesu,"" and ""Libera me."" American composer Dan Forrest has written ""Requiem for the Living"", a five-movement piece that follows the"
"by Johannes Ockeghem does not include '. The first polyphonic settings to include the ' are by Engarandus Juvenis (c. 1490) and Antoine Brumel (1516) to be followed by many composers of the renaissance. Later, many notable choral and orchestral settings of the Requiem including the sequence were made by composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hector Berlioz, Giuseppe Verdi, Gaetano Donizetti, and Igor Stravinsky. The traditional Gregorian melody has been used as a theme or musical quotation in many classical compositions, film scores, and popular works, including: Dies irae It is a Medieval Latin poem characterized by its accentual"
"A major String Quintet, and also the viola alta, an instrument developed during the 1870s by Hermann Ritter and the prototype of viola expressly endorsed by Richard Wagner for his Bayreuth Orchestra. A heavily contrapuntal composer, Draeseke reveled in writing choral music, achieving major success with his B minor ""Requiem"" of 1877–1880. His most contrapuntal work is called ""Mysterium ""Christus"""", which is composed of a prologue and three separate oratorios and requires three days for a complete performance, a work which occupied him between the years 1894–1899 but whose conception reaches back to the 1860s. According to some , Draeseke's"
"Requiem (Fauré) Gabriel Fauré composed his Requiem in D minor, Op. 48, between 1887 and 1890. The choral-orchestral setting of the shortened Catholic Mass for the Dead in Latin is the best-known of his large works. Its focus is on eternal rest and consolation. Fauré's reasons for composing the work are unclear, but do not appear to have had anything to do with the death of his parents in the mid-1880s. He composed the work in the late 1880s and revised it in the 1890s, finishing it in 1900. In seven movements, the work is scored for soprano and baritone"
"completions of several unfinished Mozart works, including the ""Requiem"" in D minor and ""Great Mass in C minor"", are considered his most important achievements. In the Mozart ""Requiem"", he reconstructed an ""Amen"" fugue from Mozart's own sketches. John Eliot Gardiner commissioned him to write missing orchestral parts to five movements of cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach, such as ""Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe"". As a performer, he is best known as soloist in Classical-era piano concertos in general, and those of Mozart and Beethoven in particular, in which he robustly re-creates performance practice of the composers'"
"of timpani, three suspended cymbals, cymbals, 2 tam-tams, bass drum, snare drum, tenor drum, military snare drum, six tom-toms, five timbales, alto wood block, tubular bells, mass bell, church bells, ratchet, whip, glockenspiel, vibraphone, xylophone; and strings. It is structured in seventeen movements, the duration is given by the publisher Schott as 110 minutes. The additional ciaccona is set for string orchestra. It has been published, performed and recorded also separately. The name of the work is similar to ""A German Requiem"", composed of sections from the bible in German. But Penderecki followed the liturgical Latin of the Requiem (Mass"
"to the International Music Council. Orchestral: Stage: Vocal-choral: Chamber: Piano: Electro-acoustic: Dieter Lehnhoff Dieter Lehnhoff Temme (born 27 May 1955) is a German-Guatemalan composer, conductor, and musicologist. Born in Guatemala City to German settlers, 1955, Dieter Lehnhoff Temme has been a pupil of Klaus Ager, Gerhard Wimberger, Josef Maria Horváth, and Dr. Friedrich C. Heller in Salzburg. His ""musique concréte"" work Requiem was premiered in 1975 at the Austrian Broadcasting (ORF). He earned his master's (M.A.) and doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees with distinction at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where"
"Violin Sonata, in A minor, Op. 26 (1897) was dedicated to Joachim, while the String Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 8 (1889) was first performed by the Joachim Quartet. The second string quartet was premièred by the Klingler Quartet, the successor of the Joachim Quartet. Finally his clarinet trio op.45 was dedicated to and performed by the famous clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld who also inspired Brahms's late chamber compositions. Hans von Bülow conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the world première of Kahn's orchestral serenade. Robert Kahn (composer) Robert Kahn (July 21, 1865 – May 29, 1951) was a"