Franz von Suppé: Missa pro defunctis: SATB

Requiem-Franz Suppè wrote his Requiem not as a humanistic or pantheistic lament for the dead but as a work created on the basis of firm Christian and Catholic faith. The fact that Suppè succeeded in writing a Requiem which remains within the theological-liturgical bounds without sacrificing the values of an autonomous work of art is perhaps the greatest - although hitherto unrecognized- achievement of this work.