Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem: Mixed Choir: Miniature Score

Double Bass-Trilingual preface (Ital/Eng/Ger) Detailed critical commentary (Eng)Straight-forward well-presented Piano reduction (Lat)In this new scholarly-critical edition of the Messa da Requiem the editor on the basis of all available sources succeeds in presenting practical suggestions to solve musical problems and those concerning the interpretation of this famous work. A hitherto unexamined handwritten reduction for Voice and Piano casts a new light on the evaluation of several known sources and leads to new philological and editorial decisions.This edition presents a detailed critical commentary as well as a preface on the genesis andhistory of the work. In addition the preface includes a short section on the most important editions published in the 19th century and compares them with regard to problematic passages in the work and the suggestions they made to solve musical problems.

Wind Instruments-Trilingual preface (Ital/Eng/Ger) Detailed critical commentary (Eng)Straight-forward well-presented Piano reduction (Lat)In this new scholarly-critical edition of the Messa da Requiem the editor on the basis of all available sources succeeds in presenting practical suggestions to solve musical problems and those concerning the interpretation of this famous work. A hitherto unexamined handwritten reduction for Voice and Piano casts a new light on the evaluation of several known sources and leads to new philological and editorial decisions.This edition presents a detailed critical commentary as well as a preface on the genesis andhistory of the work. In addition the preface includes a short section on the most important editions published in the 19th century and compares them with regard to problematic passages in the work and the suggestions they made to solve musical problems.

Viola-Trilingual preface (Ital/Eng/Ger) Detailed critical commentary (Eng)Straight-forward well-presented Piano reduction (Lat)In this new scholarly-critical edition of the Messa da Requiem the editor on the basis of all available sources succeeds in presenting practical suggestions to solve musical problems and those concerning the interpretation of this famous work. A hitherto unexamined handwritten reduction for Voice and Piano casts a new light on the evaluation of several known sources and leads to new philological and editorial decisions.This edition presents a detailed critical commentary as well as a preface on the genesis andhistory of the work. In addition the preface includes a short section on the most important editions published in the 19th century and compares them with regard to problematic passages in the work and the suggestions they made to solve musical problems.

Urtext edition-Trilingual preface (Ital/Eng/Ger) Detailed critical commentary (Eng)Straight-forward well-presented Piano reduction (Lat)In this new scholarly-critical edition of the Messa da Requiem the editor on the basis of all available sources succeeds in presenting practical suggestions to solve musical problems and those concerning the interpretation of this famous work. A hitherto unexamined handwritten reduction for Voice and Piano casts a new light on the evaluation of several known sources and leads to new philological and editorial decisions.This edition presents a detailed critical commentary as well as a preface on the genesis andhistory of the work. In addition the preface includes a short section on the most important editions published in the 19th century and compares them with regard to problematic passages in the work and the suggestions they made to solve musical problems.

Edited by David Rosen-The Works of Giuseppe Verdi is the first critical edition of the composer’s oeuvre. Together with his operas the series presents his songs his choral music and sacred pieces and his string quartet and other instrumental works. This edition of Messa da Requiem is based on Verdi’s autograph score and other original sources. The appendices include two pieces from the compositional history of the Requiem: an early version of the Libera me composed in 1869 as part of a collaborative work planned as a memorial to Rossini and the Liber scriptus which in the original score of the Manzoni memorial Requiem was composed as a fugue for chorus. The introduction to the score tracesthe complex compositional and performance histories of the Requiem and discusses the work’s problems of instrumentation and notation while the critical commentary gives a full description of the sources and an account of all editorial decisions.