List of Requiem settings
This list of Requiem scoring lists musical implementations of Requiems :
Settings of the Latin Requiem text (selection)
Renaissance
- Guillaume Dufay : Missa pro defunctis (ca.1460, lost)
- Johannes Ockeghem : Requiem pro defunctis (1461)
- Pierre de la Rue : Missa pro defunctis (approx. 1500)
- Antoine Brumel : Missa pro defunctis (1516)
- Antoine de Févin : Missa pro fidelibus defunctis (ca.1510)
- Johannes Prioris : Missa pro defunctis (1532)
- Jean Richafort : Missa pro defunctis (1532)
- Claudin de Sermisy : Missa pro defunctis (1532)
- Pierre de Manchicourt : Missa pro defunctis (ca.1550)
- Jacobus Vaet : Missa pro defunctis (ca.1550)
- Cristobal de Morales : Missa pro defunctis (1544), Missa pro defunctis (approx. 1550), Officium defunctorum (1559)
- Joan Brudieu : Missa pro defunctis (2nd half of the 16th century)
- Philippe de Monte : Missa pro defunctis (after 1550)
- Giovanni da Palestrina : Missa pro defunctis (1554)
- Juan Vásquez : Agenda defunctorum (1556)
- Francisco Guerrero : Missa pro defunctis (1566, rev. 1582)
- Orlando di Lasso : Missa pro defunctis (1578), Missa pro defunctis (1580)
- Constanzo Porta : Two Missae pro defunctis (1578)
- Jacobus Clemens non Papa : Missa defunctorum (1580)
- Tomas Luis de Victoria : Missa pro defunctis (1583), Requiem-Responsorien (1592), Officium defunctorum (1603)
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Giovanni Matteo Asola :
- Officium defunctorum (1586)
- Officium defunctorum addito cantico Zachariae (1593)
- Missa pro defunctis (1574)
- Missa pro defunctis (1576)
- Missa pro defunctis (double choir, 1580)
- Missa pro defuctorum (approx. 1600)
- Estêvão de Brito : Missa pro defunctis (1600)
- Duarte Lobo : Officium defunctorum (1603, missing), Missa pro defunctis (1621), Missa pro defunctis (1639)
- Eustache du Caurroy : Missa pro defunctis (1606)
- Orazio Vecchi : Missa pro defunctis (1607)
- Joan Pau Pujol : Missa pro defunctis (1612)
- Juan Esquivel : Missa pro defunctis (1613)
- Giovanni Francesco Anerio : Missa pro defunctis (1614)
- Jacobus de Kerle : Officium mortuorum (1614)
- Manuel Cardoso (composer) : Missa pro defunctis (1625)
- Filipe de Magalhães : Missa pro defunctis (1636)
Baroque
- Lodovico Grossi da Viadana : Missa defunctorum (1598), Officium defunctorum, op.11 (1600), Officium ac Missa defunctorum, op.15 (1604)
- Steffano Bernardi : Missa pro defunctis (1st half of 17th century)
- Juan de Lienas : Two Requiem Movements (1st half 17th century)
- Guillaume Poitevin : Mass des morts (2nd half of the 17th century)
- Étienne Moulinié : Missa pro defunctis (1636)
- Christoph Strauss : Requiem in G major, Requiem (both 1636)
- Johann Stadlmayr : Missa pro defunctis (1641)
- Joan Cererols : Two Missae pro defunctis (ca.1650)
- Adam Michna : Missa pro defunctis (1654)
- Charles d'Helfer : Missa pro defunctis (1656)
- Johann Caspar Kerll : Missa pro defunctis (1669)
- Leopold I. (HRR) : Missa pro defunctis (1673)
- Francesco Cavalli : Missa pro defunctis (1675)
- Cristóbal Galán : Misa de difuntos (ca.1680)
- Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni : Missa pro defunctis (1688), Missa pro defunctis (1735)
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber : Requiem à 15 in concerto (1687), Requiem (ca.1690)
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Mass des morts, H 7 (approx. 1690), Mass pour les trépasses (approx. 1695), Mass des morts à 4 voix et simphonie, H 10 (1697)
- Louis Chein : Missa pro defunctis (1690)
- Jean Gilles : Mass des morts (1696)
- Claudio Casciolini : Missa pro defunctis (1st half of the 18th century)
- Juan de Herrera : three Requiem settings (1st half of the 18th century)
- Miguel López : Missa defunctorum à 12 (1716)
- Johann Joseph Fux : Kaiserrequiem, K. 51-54 (1720), Requiem K. 55 (1697), Requiem K. 56
- Jan Dismas Zelenka : Requiem in D minor (1721), Requiem in C minor, ZWV 45 (approx. 1740)
- André Campra : Mass des morts (1722)
- Antonio Lotti : three Requiem settings, a. a. Requiem in F major (ca.1726)
- Benedetto Marcello : Requiem in G minor (ca.1730)
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi : Requiem in B flat major (ca.1732)
- Bartolomeo Cordans : five Requiem settings, a. a. Messa da Requiem a tre voci virili (1738)
- Gregor Joseph Werner : three Requiem settings, a. a. Requiem in G minor (2nd half of the 18th century)
- Jan Zach : three Requiem settings, a. a. Requiem in C minor (2nd half of the 18th century)
- Johann Ernst Eberlin : nine Requiem settings, a. a. Requiem in B flat major (ca.1750)
- Georg Reutter : six Requiem settings, a. a. Requiem in C minor (1753)
- Esteban Salas y Castro : three Requiem settings, a. a. Requiem (1762)
- Johann Adolph Hasse : three Requiem settings, a. a. Requiem in C major (1763)
- Francesco Brusa : Messa pro defunctis (1767)
- Giovanni Battista Runcher : Messa da Requiem ( ca.1770 )
- Domenico Cimarosa : Requiem in G minor (1787)
- Giovanni Benedetto Platti : Requiem
Classic
- Nikolaus Betscher : Requiem
- Luigi Cherubini : Requiem in D minor for male choir and orchestra
- Luigi Cherubini: Requiem in C minor for mixed choir and orchestra
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf : Requiem in C minor for solos, choir and orchestra
- François-Joseph Fétis : Requiem
- François-Joseph Gossec : Requiem Grande Mass des Morts
- Michael Haydn : Requiem in B flat major MH 838
- Michael Haydn : Missa pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismundo, C minor, MH 155 ("Schrattenbach Requiem")
- Joseph Martin Kraus : Requiem
- Józef Kozłowski : Requiem in E flat minor, 1798
- Jean Paul Egide Martini: Requiem in F minor for solos, choir and orchestra, 1816
- Johann Simon Mayr : Requiem
- Gilbert Michl : Requiem in E flat major for solos, choir and orchestra
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Requiem in D minor KV 626
- Ignaz Pleyel : Requiem in E flat major
- Anton Reicha : Missa pro defunctis for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, choir and orchestra, 1808
- Antonio Rosetti : Requiem, 1776
- Antonio Salieri : Requiem in C minor
- Franz Xaver Süssmayr : Requiem
romance
- Hector Berlioz : Grande Messe des Morts op.5
- Anton Bruckner : Requiem
- Antonio Cagnoni : Requiem, 1888
- Felix Draeseke : Requiem in B minor op.22 for solos, choir and orchestra, 1883
- Felix Draeseke: Requiem E minor WoO 35 for five voices a cappella, 1910
- Antonín Dvořák : Requiem
- Gabriel Fauré : Requiem
- Louis Théodore Gouvy : Requiem
- Charles Gounod : Requiem in C major, 1891
- Teodulo Mabellini : Requiem Grande Messa di Requiem in C minor (1850/51), supplemented by Libera me, Domine in F minor (1856)
- Franz Nekes : Requiem
- Josef Gabriel Rheinberger : Requiem in B flat minor, Op. 60 for choir and large orchestra
- Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Requiem in E flat major op. 84 for a cappella choir
- Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Requiem in D minor, op.194 for choir and organ
- Camille Saint-Saëns : Requiem op.54
- Robert Schumann : Requiem
- Paolo Serrao : Requiem
- Giovanni Sgambati : Messa da Requiem
- Franz von Suppé : Missa pro defunctis (Requiem in D minor) for solos, choir and large orchestra, 1855
- Guido Tacchinardi : Requiem a Rossini, 1869
- Messa per Rossini 13 Italian composers, composition suggested by Giuseppe Verdi, 1868
- Giuseppe Verdi : Messa da Requiem
- Richard Wetz : Requiem in B minor, Op. 50
New music
- Jehan Alain : Messe de Requiem, for four mixed voices (JA 125, 1938)
- Vyacheslav Artyomov : Requiem, for solo voices, choir and orchestra (1988)
- Kurt Atterberg : Requiem, op.8 for solo voices, choir and orchestra (1914)
- Boris Blacher : Requiem, 1958
- Maurice Duruflé : Requiem
- György Ligeti : Requiem
- Cyrillus Kreek : Reekviem in C minor, 1927
- Paul Huber : Requiem, op. 32, 1956
- Walter Haupt : Requiem - in memory of the victims of war crimes
- Volker David Kirchner : Requiem - Messa di Pace
- Markus Koch : Requiem op.12
- Konrad Lechner : Requiem for alto and seven instruments: 2 oboes, English horn, harpsichord (organ), viola, cello and double bass
- Frank Martin : Requiem pour quatuor vocal solo, choeur mixte, orchester et grand orgue 1971–72
- Klaus Miehling : Requiem for solos, choir and baroque orchestra op. 24, 1988
- Siegfried Naumann : Requiem op.61
- Gösta Neuwirth : Requiem, 1956
- Carlo Pedini : Requiem, for mixed choir, children's choir, organ and strings (2000–2003)
- Günter Raphael : Requiem op.20, 1927/28
- Siegfried Reda : Requiem vel vivorum consolatio for solos, choir and orchestra, 1963
- Aribert Reimann : Requiem for baritone, Cloudless Christmas Festival for violoncello and orchestra, 1974
- Alfred Schnittke : Requiem
- Igor Stravinsky : Requiem Canticles for mezzo-soprano, bass, choir and orchestra, 1966
- Igor Fjodorowitsch Stravinsky: Introitus, TS Eliot in Memoriam for male choir and instrumental ensemble, 1965
- Heinrich Sutermeister : Missa da Requiem, 1953
- Altuğ Ünlü : Requiem , 2014
- Erich Urbanner : Requiem for solos, mixed choir and orchestra from 1982–83
- Andrew Lloyd Webber : Requiem
- Max Welcker : Requiem op. 106 for one-part choir / solo and organ
- Max Welcker: Second Requiem with Libera for four-part mixed choir a cappella op.155
- Requiem album, band Aeternitas, Gothic Rock
Settings of the Latin Requiem text and other texts
- A World Requiem for orchestra and 1200 choirs (1921 John Foulds , text compilation by Fould's wife Maud MacCarthy with additional biblical passages, excerpts from John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress", poems by the Indian mystic Kabir and some of her own passages )
- War Requiem (1962, Benjamin Britten , poems by Wilfred Owen )
- Polish Requiem (1984, rev. 1993/2005, Krzysztof Penderecki , Polish hymn Święty Boże )
- Requiem (Rutter) (1985, Psalm 130 and Psalm 23 )
- Requiem (2005, Karl Jenkins , Japanese haikus )
Settings of orthodox requiem texts
The Orthodox Churches have their own liturgies of death:
Panikhida (Russian Orthodox)
- Panikhida, op.12 ( Pawel Grigorjewitsch Tschesnokow )
- Panikhida, op.39 (version for mixed choir, Pawel Grigorjewitsch Tschesnokow )
- Panikhida, op.39a (version for male choir, Pawel Grigorjewitsch Tschesnokow )
- Two Panikhida chants ( Alexander Dmitrijewitsch Kastalski )
- Vyechnaya pamyat 'geroyam (Panikhida texts in cantatas, Alexander Dmitrijewitsch Kastalski )
- Panikhida ( Stepan Wassiljewitsch Smolenski )
- Panikhida, op.16 ( Alexander Andrejewitsch Archangelski )
- Velikaya panikhida ( Nikolai Iwanowitsch Kazanli )
- Panikhida (in English, John Tavener )
Panakhyda (Ukrainian Orthodox)
- Panakhyda ( Kyrylo Stetsenko )
- Panakhyda ( Zinovy Lavryschyn )
Opelo (Serbian Orthodox)
- Opelo in F sharp minor ( Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac )
- Opelo in B ( Stevan Hristić )
- Opelo ( Josif Marinković )
- Opelo ( Marko Kuzmanović )
- Opelo ( Stanislav Binički )
- Opelo Pesniku Poginulom od Bombardovanja (Opelo texts in cantatas, Vojislav Kostić )
- Opelo ( Nenad Barački )
- Opelo ( Miloš Raičković )
Armenian Apostolic
There are settings by Komitas Vardapet , Alexander Arutjunjan and Loris Tjeknavorian .
Setting other texts to music
Bible
- Musical exequies (1636, Heinrich Schütz )
- A German Requiem (1868, Johannes Brahms , based on words from the Holy Scriptures )
- Dresden Requiem 1947/1948, Rudolf Mauersberger
Other texts
- Requiem after Friedrich Hebbel for 8-part mixed choir (1907) by Siegmund von Hausegger
- Requiem (1915, Max Reger , text by Friedrich Hebbel: Soul, don't forget it )
- Berlin Requiem (1929, Kurt Weill , text by Bertolt Brecht )
- Lenin Requiem (1937, Hanns Eisler , text by Bertolt Brecht )
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd - A Requiem for Those We Love (1946, Paul Hindemith based on texts by Walt Whitman )
- Joseph Haas Totenmesse (1947, op.101, in German based on texts by E. Wiechert for speaking voices, children's, women's and men's choirs and mixed choir with orchestra)
- Requiem chorale for solos, choir and orchestra op.48 (1956), Johann Nepomuk David
- Requiem for Lumumba by Paul Dessau (1961–1963, text: Karl Mickel )
- Requiem op. 39, ( Wilfred Josephs ), text: Hebrew prayer Kaddish
- The Death of Moses (1967). Requiem by Josef Tal for alto, tenor, bass, mixed choir, chamber orchestra and MagT. Text: Yehuda Ya'ari
- Requiem for a Young Poet (1969, Bernd Alois Zimmermann )
- German funeral mass (1972, Cesar Bresgen )
- Rock Requiem
- Requiem by Mikis Theodorakis (1984, text: Ioannis Damaskinos)
- Reverence for Life - Requiem by Peter Janssens for Albert Schweitzer , 1990
- Requiem for an unborn child (1990, Thomas Fortmann )
- Requiem for a Polish Boy (1998) by Dietrich Lohff , based on texts by victims of fascism
- Requiem for three countertenors, 12 instruments and live electronics (joint work with Iris ter Schiphorst) by Helmut Oehring (1998)
- Requiem of Hope by Colin Mawby for soprano, mixed choir and organ, composed from 1995 to 2002, based on texts by Henry Vaughan , John Henry Newman and anonymous texts
- Requiem (5th part of the Judas Passion op.105, 2004) by Klaus Michael Miehling (text selection: Matthias Uhlich)
- Requiem (2005 by Stefan Hippe ) for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra. Texts: by Alejandra Pizarnik and from the Old Testament
Settings without text
- Sinfonia da Requiem op.20 Benjamin Britten
- Small Requiem for Heinrich Böll (1991) for a cappella choir and bass baritone; Text: Hildegard von Bingen by Klaus Huber
- Requiem (1990–1992), 9 sacred concertos for piano solo, concert trumpet and large chamber orchestra Hans Werner Henze
- Requiem metamorphoses. A prologue to the Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for orchestra (1992) by Wolfram Graf
- Small Requiem for a Polka, Op. 66 (1993) Henryk Górecki
- The Four Last Things (Quasi una Sinfonia da Requiem) for organ and large orchestra (1996/97) Horst Lohse
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (Requiem) Michel Meynaud
- Requiem, for viola sola (2001) by Boris Guckelsberger
- Requiem for bassoon and string orchestra, op. 63 (2001) by Hanno Haag
- A Requiem in Our Time, for Brass Ensemble Einojuhani Rautavaara
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean Gilles (de Tarascon) at requiemsurvey.org
- ↑ Mikis Theodorakis: About my "Requiem" . ( Memento of September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) July 29, 2004
Web links
- Requiem Survey , directory of over 5000 settings of the Requiem (English)