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The Messa da Requiem is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass for four soloists, double choir and orchestra by Giuseppe Verdi. It was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni , whom Verdi admired, and therefore also referred to as the Manzoni Requiem .
EMI, CD: CDH7 63341-2: Gramophone [dead link ] 1939: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Toonkunst Chorus Amsterdam, Carl Schuricht: Ina Souez, Lore Fischer, Louis van Tulder, Hermann Schey: Archiphon, CD: ARC-3,2/3: Live recording made on 2 November at the Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam 1940: RAI Orchestra and Chorus, Victor de Sabata: Maria ...
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On 9 December 2017, after 148 years and a month, the Requiem was finally performed in the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, the place Giuseppe Verdi originally had in mind for this work. [5] Organized and created by "Succede solo a Bologna APS", Lorenzo Bizzarri conducted the Cappella Musicale di Santa Maria dei Servi (orchestra and choir ...
Verdi's gift for music was already apparent by 1820–21 when he began his association with the local church, serving in the choir, acting as an altar boy for a while, and taking organ lessons. After Baistrocchi's death, Verdi, at the age of eight, became the official paid organist. [5] Antonio Barezzi, Verdi's patron and later father-in-law
Luigi Ottolini (23 August 1925, Milan – 16 March 2002, Suardi) [1] was an Italian operatic tenor noted for his appearances in the 1960 recording of Verdi's Requiem with Joan Sutherland, Fiorenza Cossotto and Carlo Maria Giulini, [2] the 1961 Turin recording of Verdi's Don Carlos with Boris Christoff [3] and the 1963 recording of scenes from Verdi's Aida with Birgit Nilsson. [4]
"Libera me" ("Deliver me") is a responsory sung in the Office of the Dead in the Catholic Church, and at the absolution of the dead, a service of prayers for the dead said beside the coffin immediately after the Requiem Mass and before burial. The text asks God to have mercy upon the deceased person at the Last Judgment.