Katana VentraIP

Requiem (Verdi)

The Messa da Requiem (at one time referred to as the Manzoni Requiem[1]) is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass (Requiem) for four soloists, double choir and orchestra by Giuseppe Verdi. It was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi admired. The first performance, at the San Marco church in Milan on 22 May 1874, marked the first anniversary of Manzoni's death.

Messa da Requiem

Messa per Rossini

In memory of Alessandro Manzoni

Requiem

Latin

22 May 1874 (1874-05-22)

  • four soloists
  • double choir
  • orchestra

Considered too operatic to be performed in a liturgical setting, it is usually given in concert form of around 90 minutes in length. Musicologist David Rosen calls it "probably the most frequently performed major choral work composed since the compilation of Mozart's Requiem".[2]

Requiem

Dies irae

Offertory

4. (double chorus)

Sanctus

5. (soprano, mezzo-soprano, chorus)

Agnus Dei

6. (mezzo-soprano, tenor, bass)

Lux aeterna

Libera me

(1997). Bernard Shaw: A Biography. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 07011-6279-1.

Holroyd, Michael

Kreuzer, Gundula (2010). Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  978-0-521-51919-9.

ISBN

Resigno, Eduardo (2001). Dizionario Verdiano. Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli.  88-17-86628-8.

ISBN

(1995). Verdi: Requiem. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39448-1.

Rosen, David

Summer, Robert J. (2007). Choral Masterworks from Bach to Britten: Reflections of a Conductor. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press.  978-0-8108-5903-6.

ISBN

Notes


Sources

(2006), The Oxford Dictionary of Music. ISBN 0-19-861459-4

Kennedy, Michael

Verdi, Giuseppe; (Ed., Marco Uvietta, 2014) Messa da requiem. Critical edition. Kassel: .

Bärenreiter

Digitised copy of Verdi's published by Ricordi in Milan 1874, from National Library of Scotland.

Messa Da Requiem

Live Recording of Liber Scriptus portion of Requiem (Mary Gayle Greene, mezzo-soprano)

: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

Requiem (Verdi)

in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)

Free scores of Requiem (Verdi)