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The Messa da Requiem is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass for four soloists, double choir and orchestra by Giuseppe Verdi. It was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni , whom Verdi admired, and therefore also referred to as the Manzoni Requiem .
This counterpoint of the first theme prolongs the orchestral introduction with chords, recalling the beginning of the work and its rhythmic and melodic shiftings (the first basset horn begins a measure after the second but a tone higher, the first violins are likewise in sync with the second violins but a quarter note shifted, etc.).
Page from the manuscript of the Requiem: In paradisum, m. 413, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. 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.
The Requiem by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti is a large-scale choral and orchestral composition, composed between 1963 and 1965.
"Requiem of the Dawn") (also known as "Requiem der Morgenröte") is the third track created by the Japanese band Linked Horizon for their third album Attack on Paradise . Originally released in a shortened version on 30 July 2018 to be used as the fourth ending for the anime Attack on Titan , the full version would be released as part of the ...
Max Reger's 1915 Requiem (or the Hebbel Requiem), Op. 144b, 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 Dem Andenken der im Kriege 1914/15 gefallenen deutschen Helden (To the memory of the German heroes who fell in the 1914/15 War).
" Requiem", SC 76, is a composition for choir, viola and pump organ or pipe organ that Giacomo Puccini wrote in 1905. Commissioned by his publisher, Puccini set the Latin antiphon of the Requiem mass on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Verdi .
Lux Æterna (Classical Latin: [ˈluːks ae̯ˈtɛrna], Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈluks eˈterna]; "eternal light") is an orchestral composition by Clint Mansell.Performed by the Kronos Quartet, it forms a leitmotif in the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream, and is the penultimate piece in the movie's soundtrack.