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War Requiem

soloists (STBar), mixed choir (SATB), boys' choir, orchestra and chamber orchestra
Product number: BH 6501377
Edition: Study score
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It is regarded by many as his masterpiece in the non-operatic sphere: Britten's War Requiem, premiered in 1962 to celebrate the opening of the new cathedral at Coventry, built to replace the one destroyed during the war. Britten used the opportunity to write a milestone of post-war music history: In memory of the war dead he combined texts of a Latin mass with 20th-century poems and set his deeply held pacifist and humanitarian beliefs to music. The requiem's direct style has overwhelmed audiences for more than fifty years.

Orchestral Cast

main orchestra: 3(III=picc).2.corA.3(III=Ebcl,bcl).2.dbn-6.4.3.1- timp.perc(4):2crot/glsp/gong/t.bells/vib/cyms/tgl/cast/tpl.bl/whip/ BD/2SD/tamb/TD-pft-portable organ(harmonium)-grand organ (ad lib)- strings chamber orchestra: 1(=picc).1(=corA).1.1-1.0.0.0-perc(1):timp/gong/ cyms/BD/SD-harp-string quintet

Content

Requiem aeternam
Dies irae
Offertorium
Santus
Agnus dei
Libera me

More Information

Title:
War Requiem
Language:
Latin, English
Edition:
Study score
Publisher/Label:
Boosey & Hawkes
Year of composition:
1962
Opus:
op. 66
Duration:
85 ′
Commissioned work :
Commissiond for the Festival to celebrate the Consecration St. Michael's Cathedral, Coventry, May 1962
Series:

Technical Details

Product number:
BH 6501377
ISMN13:
979-0-060-10707-8
ISBN13:
978-0-85162-198-2
UPC:
073999935158
Weight:
0,81 kg
Pages:
256
Format:
23.1cm x 30.3cm
Binding:
Paperback/Softcover

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