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FULL Requiem (Michael Haydn) Saint-Denis 2014 Malin Christensson, Marianne Crebassa, Julien Behr, Andreas Wolf
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Requiem
- Composer: Haydn Michael
- Libretto: traditional
- Venue & Opera Company: Basilique de Saint-Denis, FranceFestival de Saint Denis, 2014
- Recorded: 2014
- Type: Concert Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Michael Haydn wrote the Missa pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismondo, or more generally Missa pro Defunctis, Klafsky I:8, MH 155, following the death of the Count Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach in Salzburg in December 1771. Haydn completed the Requiem before the year was over, signing it “S[oli] D[eo] H[onor] et G[loria.] Salisburgi 31 Dicembre 1771.” At the beginning of that year, his daughter Aloisia Josefa[1] died. Historians believe “his own personal bereavement” motivated the composition. Contemporary materials which have survived to the present day include the autograph score found in Berlin, a set of copied parts with many corrections in Haydn’s hand in Salzburg and another set at the Esterházy castle in Eisenstadt, and a score prepared by the Salzburg copyist Nikolaus Lang found in Munich