Benjamin Britten
War Requiem op. 66
Soli (STB), gemischter Chor, Knabenchor und Orchester
Benjamin Britten
War Requiem op. 66
Soli (STB), gemischter Chor, Knabenchor und Orchester
- Instrumentation Soloists, Mixed Choir (SATB), Children's Choir and Orchestra
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Edition Vocal Score
- Publisher Boosey & Hawkes
- Order no. BH5500014
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Description:
It is regarded by many as his masterpiece in the non-operatic sphere: Britten's War Requiem, premiered in 1962 to celebrate the opening of the new cathedral at Coventry, built to replace the one destroyed during the war. Britten used the opportunity to write a milestone of post-war music history: In memory of the war dead he combined texts of a Latin mass with 20th-century poems and set his deeply held pacifist and humanitarian beliefs to music. The requiem's direct style has overwhelmed audiences for more than fifty years.