Requiem (Michael Haydn)
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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.[2] 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.[3]
Requiem | |
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by Michael Haydn | |
Full title | Missa pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismondo |
Key | C minor |
Catalogue | Klafsky I:8, MH 155 |
Occasion | Requiem of Sigismund von Schrattenbach |
Text | Requiem |
Language | Latin |
Composed | 1771 (1771) |
Vocal | SATB choir and soloists |
Instrumental |
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