REQUIEM C MINOR
MISSA PRO DEFUNCTIS
COMPOSER / AUTHOR: CHERUBINI, LUIGI

DETAILED INSTRUMENTATION: MIXED CHOIR (SATB), OBOE (2), CLARINET (IN B-FLAT) (2), BASSOON (2), HORN (2), TRUMPET (2), ALTO TROMBONE, TENOR TROMBONE (IN B-FLAT), BASS TROMBONE, TIMPANI, TAM-TAM (GONG), VIOLIN (2), VIOLA (2), VIOLONCELLO, DOUBLE BASS
EDITOR: SCHELLEVIS, HANS
FOREWORD / INTRODUCTION: SCHELLEVIS, HANS
PRODUCT FORMAT: PIANO REDUCTION, URTEXT EDITION
LANGUAGE(S) OF WORK: LATIN
LANGUAGE(S) OF TEXT: GERMAN, ENGLISH
LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY (D): 3
PUBLISHER: BÄRENREITER
BINDING: STAPLED
PRINT RUN:2ND PRINTING 2018

DESCRIPTION:
-CHERUBINI OWES HIS FAME AS A CHURCH COMPOSER PRIMARILY TO THE “REQUIEM IN C MINOR” OF 1817. IT WAS HELD IN EXTRAORDINARILY HIGH ESTEEM BY SUCH COMPOSERS AS BEETHOVEN AND SCHUMANN AND SERVED AS A MODEL FOR EARLY 19TH-CENTURY REQUIEM SETTINGS. DISPENSING ENTIRELY WITH SOLO VOICES, IT CAPTIVATES WITH ITS RIGOROUS FORMAL CONCENTRATION AND ITS RESTRAINED USE OF MUSICAL RESOURCES IN BOTH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA.

-THIS URTEXT EDITION TAKES INTO ACCOUNT NOT ONLY THE AUTOGRAPH SCORE WITH “SPARTITINO” (ADDITIONAL INSTRUMENTS WRITTEN IN BY HAND) BUT ALSO THE FIRST EDITION AND A COPYIST’S MANUSCRIPT.
ROUNDING OFF THIS EXEMPLARY URTEXT PUBLICATION IS AN INFORMATIVE INTRODUCTION AND A CRITICAL COMMENTARY (ENG).

• CHERUBINI’S WELL-KNOWN REQUIEM IN A DEFINITIVE URTEXT EDITION
• BILINGUAL FOREWORD (ENG/GER)
• IDIOMATIC, UNCLUTTERED PIANO REDUCTION

CONTENTS:
• PREFACE

• VORWORT

• COMPOSER / AUTHOR: CHERUBINI, LUIGI
REQUIEM C-MOLL. MISSA PRO DEFUNCTIS:

• INTROIT

• GRADUEL

• DIES IRAE

• OFFERTORIUM

• SANCTUS

• PIE JESU

• AGNUS DEI.