Fredrik Sixten
Requiem
Fredrik Sixten
Requiem
- Instrumentation Soloists, Choir and Orchestra
- Composer Fredrik Sixten
- Lyricist Bengt Pohjanen
- Edition Score
- Publisher Gehrmans Musikförlag
- Order no. GE11183
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Description:
For soprano, bass, mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra. Lyrics from the death mass and by Bengt Pohjanen in English translation by John Hearne.
Fredrik Sixten: When my dear friend Patrik Runeke became seriously ill and died - only 37 years old - feelings and thoughts concering life and death overwhelmed me. It was natural for me to turn to Bengt Pohjanen, with whom I had collaborated earlier, to ask him to formulate:
Fredrik Sixten: When my dear friend Patrik Runeke became seriously ill and died - only 37 years old - feelings and thoughts concering life and death overwhelmed me. It was natural for me to turn to Bengt Pohjanen, with whom I had collaborated earlier, to ask him to formulate:
- words of anger and of gratitude
- words of guilt and of forgiveness
- words of consolation, of love and hope.