Domenico Cimarosa

Requiem

With the "Libera me" finally complete
The Requiem by Domenico Cimarosa, composed in 1787, quickly became known in many places through copies and has remained a repertoire work of classical church music to this day.

The discovery of an authentic, subsequently added Libera me movement, which can be found in the main sources (score autograph, original voice material) but had not been published until now, seems all the more astonishing. The complete liturgical form of the Requiem requires a Libera me, and with this new edition, Cimarosa's Requiem can now finally be performed in its complete form again, more than 220 years after the work was written. The Urtext new edition by Reinmar Emans thus certainly contains more than just the previously known musical text. In addition, several contemporary copies were of value for the editorial work, which in part provided further important details.