Solo voices, choir, orchestra (Tenor Voice Solo, Mixed choir: SSTTBB, 4Fl, 2 Ob, 2 EnglHn, 4clarinet, 8bassoon, 12 Hn, 10timpani, percussion, Str, Orch1: 4Pist, 4trombone, 2 Tb, Orch2 : 4Trp, 4trombone, Orch3: 4Trp, 4trombone) - Level 4
SKU: BA.BA05449
Requiem. Composed by Hector Berlioz. Edited by Jürgen Kindermann. This edition: complete edition, urtext edition. Linen. New Berlioz Edition (Neue Berlioz-Ausgabe - NBE) Volume 9. Complete edition, Score. Opus 5. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA05449. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA05449).
ISBN 9790006471492. 33.2 x 26.4 cm inches. Text Language: Latin. Preface: Kindermann, Jürgen.
The Grande mess des morts (Requiem) was composed in 1837 as the result of a commission from the French Minister of the Interior, Adrien de Gasparin. By means of annual commissions of this kind Gasparin intended to “restore sacred music to the prestige which it had long ago lost in France”.
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