Aita José Antonio [Aita] de Donostia -real name: José Gonzalo Zulaica y Arregui- (10/01/1886 - 30/08/1956), a Spanish composer (from San Sebastián) and folklorist of a Basque nationalist group.
Source: | Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians |
José Gonzalo Zulaica (10/01/1886 – 30/08/1956), better known by his pen name Aita Donostia (Father Donostia or Father San Sebastian, because he was a priest born in San Sebastian, Donostia in the Basque language), was a Spanish and Basque musicologist and composer. He was also known as José Antonio de Donostia.
Source: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aita_Donostia |
Missa pro defunctis
Period: | Expressionism |
Composed in: | 1945 |
Musical form: | mass |
Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
In memory of: | the composer's mother (and father?) |
Label(s): | Aus Art Records |
| RTVE-Música |
Liturgical requiem for mixed choir (SATB) and orchestra, written in 1945. It contains:
01. Requiem aeternam
02. Kyrie - Christe - Kyrie
03. Graduale - Requiem
04. Tractus - Absolve domine
05. Offertorium
06. Sanctus
07. Benedictus
08. Agnus Dei
09. Communio - Lux aeternam
10. Absolutio