for | Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra |
Musical Editions | Piano reduction |
Item no. | 471411 |
Author / Composer | Johann Adolph Hasse |
Editor | Wolfram Hader |
Piano score | Paul Horn |
Language | latin |
Scope | 64 pages; 19 × 27 cm |
Duration | 42 minutes |
Year of origin | 1764 |
Release year | 2008 |
Publisher / Producer | Carus Verlag |
Producer No. | CV 50.709/03 |
ISMN | 9790007092252 |
Scoring: Soli SSAATTB, Coro SATB, 2 Cor, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, Str, Bc
Two complete settings of the Requiem by Johann Adolf Hasse are extant. Hasse composed the Requiem in C major on the death of the Elector Friedrich August 11 of Saxony. Only a few weeks later his son the elector Friedrich Christian also died. Presumably for this reason Hasse wrote the Requiem in D flat, and because of the shortage of time he used the Sanctus and Agnus of a Requiem in B flat which he had composed earlier. The principal sections Introitus/Kyrie and Dies irae probably date from 1763 and 1764.