Solo Voices, SATB Chorus, Orchestra - Level 3 SKU: CA.5075100
First edition. Composed by Johann Adolf Hasse. Edited by Wolfgang Hochstein. Gesamt- und Werkausgaben: Johann Adolf Hasse. Selected Works. Full Score. Composed 1763. Duration 48 minutes. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.5075100). ISBN 9790007252953. Key: C major. Latin.
Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholic Hofkirche in Dresden. With this work, he composed a monument in music to his long-standing, generous employer, who was also King of Poland under the name August III: passionate choral movements, echoes of historic compositional styles, expressive vocal solos and arias undeniably revealing Hasse the opera composer, plus trumpets and timpani in the orchestra - all these are the ingredients of a royal Requiem Mass in the style of a Missa solemnis. - First edition- Passionate choral movements of medium difficulty- Expressive vocal soli- Royal Requiem Mass in the style of a Missa solemnisAdditional program suggestion: Miserere in C minor by Hasse (Carus 40.961).
