Content
- Requiem Aeternam
- Dies irae
- Offertorium
- Sanctus
- Agnus Dei
- Libera me
boys' part
for | 3 soloists (STB), boys’ choir, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra |
Musical Editions | Choir score (children's choir) |
Item no. | 695871 |
Author / Composer | Benjamin Britten |
Text | Wilfred Owen |
Language | latin |
Scope | 8 pages; 18.5 × 26 cm |
Duration | 85 minutes |
Year of origin | 1961 |
Publisher / Producer | Boosey & Hawkes |
Producer No. | BH 5500014 |
ISMN | 9790060015588 |
UPC | 0073999742398 |
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.
Words from the "Missa pro Defunctis" and the poems of Wilfred Owen
for: 3 soloists (STB), boys’ choir, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 198636
The Masterworks Library
for: 3 soloists (STB), boys’ choir, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 297537
Words from the "Missa pro Defunctis" and the poems of Wilfred Owen
for: 3 soloists (STB), boys’ choir, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 375673