Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C major 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.
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- Passionate choral movements of medium difficulty
- Expressive vocal soli
- “Royal” Requiem Mass in the style of a Missa solemnis
Additional program suggestion: Miserere in C minor major by Hasse (Carus 40.961)
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Composer
Johann Adolf Hasse
| 1699-1783
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Editor
Wolfgang Hochstein
| 1950
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Vocal score arranger
Harry Schröder
| 1956-2022
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