Which composer wrote a 'German Requiem'?
"years. ""A German Requiem"" inspired the titles of Jorge Luis Borges' 1949 short story ""Deutsches Requiem"" and Philip Kerr's 1991 novel ""A German Requiem"". The start of the piece's second movement, """"Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras"""" (""For all flesh, is as grass""), is used in the opening credits of the BBC documentary film series """", with various parts of this part of the movement being used for the closing credits. A German Requiem (Brahms) A German Requiem, to Words of the Holy Scriptures, Op. 45 () by Johannes Brahms, is a large-scale work for chorus, orchestra, a soprano"
"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"
"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"
"Requiem (Jenkins) Requiem is a classical work by Karl Jenkins, first recorded and performed in 2005. It was premièred at Southwark Cathedral on 2 June 2005, by the West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra and Adiemus percussion and brass, conducted by the composer. Soloists were Nicole Tibbels (soprano), Clive Bell (shakuhachi), Sam Landman (treble) and Catrin Finch (harp). In this work, Jenkins interjects movements featuring Japanese death poems in the form of a haiku with those traditionally encountered in a Requiem Mass. At times, the Latin text is sung below the text of the haiku. Oriental instruments are included in the orchestration,"
"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 28 September 1984. Penderecki revised and expanded the work in"
"Requiem (Ockeghem) Requiem, by Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410 – 1497), is a polyphonic setting of the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass (the ""Missa pro defunctis"", or Mass for the dead). It is probably the earliest surviving polyphonic setting of any requiem mass. It is unusual in that the movements vary greatly in style, and each uses a paraphrase technique for the original Gregorian chant. It has five parts for four voices and is one of Ockeghem's best known and most performed works. Ockeghem's ""Requiem"" is often considered incomplete as it lacks a Sanctus, Communion or Agnus Dei. The closing movement, 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 (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"
"Modern completions of Mozart's Requiem This article lists some of the modern completions of the ""Requiem"" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. For a performance of the Requiem in Rio de Janeiro in December 1819, Austrian composer Sigismund von Neukomm constructed a further movement based on material in the Süssmayr version. Incorporating music from various movements including the Requiem aeternum, Dies irae, Lacrymosa and Agnus Dei, the bulk of the piece is set to the Libera me, a responsory text which is traditionally sung after the Requiem mass, and concludes with a reprise of the Kyrie and a final Requiescat in pace."
"Deutsches Requiem (short story) ""Deutsches Requiem"" is a short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. Published on ""Sur"" in February 1946, it was reprinted in the collection ""El Aleph"" (1949). It is the fictional last testament of Otto Dietrich zur Linde, the one-legged commandant of a Nazi concentration camp. After being tried and convicted of crimes against humanity, Zur Linde reflects back on his own sins and those of Nazi Germany while he awaits the firing squad. A member of the German nobility, zur Linde is born in Marienburg, West Prussia in 1908. Raised Lutheran, zur Linde loses his"
"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"
"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"
"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 (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 work to Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, which Weinberg knew well. It consists of the following movements: It wasn't performed in the composer's lifetime, the premiere only taking place on November 21, 2009 in Liverpool by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, with Thomas Sanderling conducting"
"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"
"Requiem (MacMillan) Requiem is a one-act ballet created by Kenneth MacMillan in 1976 for the Stuttgart Ballet. The music is Gabriel Fauré's Requiem (1890). The designer was Yolanda Sonnabend, who had first collaborated with him on 1963's ""Symphony"". In MacMillan's words, ""This danced Requiem is dedicated to the memory of my friend and colleague John Cranko, Director of the Stuttgart Ballet 1961–1973."" The first performance was given at Stuttgart on 28 November 1976. MacMillan recreated the piece for the Royal Ballet, London, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 3 March 1983. MacMillan's decision to set a ballet to"
"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 Requiem is approximately 90 minutes. Though it was commissioned to commemorate composer Hector"
"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"
"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"
"Selective bibliography 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"
"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"
"character while also being physically playable. Karl Klindworth's piano solo (c.1900), Muzio Clementi's organ solo, and Renaud de Vilbac's harmonium solo (c.1875) are liberal in their approach to achieve this. In contrast, Carl Czerny wrote his piano transcription for two players, enabling him to retain the extent of the score, if sacrificing timbral character. Franz Liszt's piano solo (c.1865) departs the most in terms of fidelity and character of the Requiem, through its inclusion of composition devices used to showcase pianistic technique. Requiem (Mozart) The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)."
"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"
"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."
"A German Requiem (novel) A German Requiem is a historical detective novel and the last in the Berlin Noir trilogy of Bernhard Günther novels written by Philip Kerr. After spending the latter part of the war in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp, 1947 sees Bernhard Günther now married to a wife who is trading sex with U.S. Army officers for scarce goods. Berlin and Vienna were captured by the Red Army, so Germans, former Nazis, Allied occupiers and Günther have the Russians to contend with. An old colleague from Günther's days in Berlin, a dirty cop, war criminal, and smuggler named"
"requiem works by Taiwanese composers Tyzen Hsiao and Ko Fan-long follow in this tradition, honouring victims of the February 28 Incident and subsequent White Terror. The 20th century saw the development of the secular Requiem, written for public performance without specific religious observance, such as Max Reger's ""Requiem"" (1915), the setting of a German poem titled Requiem and dedicated to victims of World War I, and Frederick Delius's ""Requiem"", completed in 1916 and dedicated to ""the memory of all young Artists fallen in the war"",; Paul Hindemith's ""When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd: A Requiem for Those We Love"","
"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 he was a graduate student of Conrad Bernier and Helmut Braunlich"
"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"
"already opened the way for the composition of a non-liturgical ""Requiem"", written in a language other than Latin while still addressing the traditional theme of rest (""requies"") for the dead. In this tradition, Reger's 1915 ""Requiem"", , is also not a setting of the Requiem in Latin, but of Hebbel's poem. He composed it in Jena, a year before his own death, this time for a solo voice (alto or baritone), chorus and orchestra. The ""Requiem"", , was combined with ' (The Hermit), , a setting of a poem by Joseph von Eichendorff, as """" (Two songs for mixed chorus"
"In Jena, he composed the ""Hebbel Requiem"" for soloist, choir and orchestra, Op.144b, again on Hebbel's poem, as in the setting for men's chorus. Following a full day of teaching in Leipzig, Reger died of a heart attack while staying at a hotel there on 11May 1916. In 1840 the playwright Friedrich Hebbel wrote a poem in German titled ""Requiem"", its Latin title alluding to """" (eternal rest), the first words of the Mass for the Dead. The poem opens with an apostrophe to a ""soul"" in a plea, """" (Soul, forget them not, soul, forget not the dead). These"
"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"
"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"
"at the Bremen Cathedral, that he would have gladly called the work """"Ein menschliches Requiem"""" (A human Requiem). Although the Requiem Mass in the Roman Catholic liturgy begins with prayers for the dead (""Grant them eternal rest, O Lord""), ""A German Requiem"" focuses on the living, beginning with the text ""Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted."" from the Beatitudes. This theme—transition from anxiety to comfort—recurs in all the following movements except movements IV and VII, the central one and the final one. Although the idea of the Lord is the source of the comfort, the sympathetic"