"Which German composer wrote ""A German Requiem""?"
"performance was a great success and marked a turning point in Brahms's career. In May 1868 Brahms composed an additional movement, which became the fifth movement within the final work. The new movement, which was scored for soprano soloist and choir, was first sung in Zürich on 12 September 1868 by Ida Suter-Weber, with Friedrich Hegar conducting the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich. The final, seven-movement version of ""A German Requiem"" was premiered in Leipzig on 18 February 1869 with Carl Reinecke conducting the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Chorus, and soloists Emilie Bellingrath-Wagner and . Brahms assembled the libretto himself. In contrast to"
"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"
"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"
"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 (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"
"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 (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"
"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"
"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"
"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."
"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,"
"the word and the unutterable. Vladimir Mattioni 19. 02. 2007 All tracks composed by Autopsia. Performed by Dämmerung Orchestra The Berlin Requiem (Autopsia album) The Berlin Requiem is a CD album by Autopsia, a Czech industrial/experimental music group. When Mary Shelley makes a choice regarding the place on which Doctor Frankenstein will finally render to our memory the creature which he procreated, she opts for an icy wasteland. The place that looks like a perfect description of eternity, where everything is motionless, out of the senses, like a frozen image in which only a wind might be giving a promise"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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."
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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 (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"
"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 Retter in Gefahr"", SmWV 302, received its first full performance in over 200 years in June 2012 in a new edition by Mark Nabholz, conducted by Terrence Stoneberg. There are also CD recordings of his unfinished clarinet concerto"
"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"
"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)."
"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"
"deutsches Requiem"" by Brahms, Rossini's ""Petite messe solennelle"", Gounod's ""St. Cecilia Mass"", and Verdi's ""Requiem"". Both ""Chor"" and ""Kinderchor"" appeared in performances of Hermann Suter's ""Le Laudi"" (1998 and 2007) and in 2004 in the German premiere of John Rutter's ""Mass of the Children"". In 2006, Dessauer conducted Karl Jenkins' ""Requiem"", composed in 2004. In 2010, works of Bach were performed, his Mass in G minor and choral movements from cantatas BWV 140, BWV 12, BWV 120 and BWV 29. In 2011 the choir sang Haydn's ""Die Schöpfung"". The children's choir sang along with the soprano. To celebrate the 150th"
"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"
"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 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"
"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"