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Johann Simon Mayr
1763 - 1845
Germany
| J.S. Mayr |
Simon Mayr -also Giovanni Simone Mayr- (14/06/1763 - 02/12/1845), an Italian composer of German origin, born in Mendorf. He was buried in Bergamo. When Donizetti (his most famous pupil) returned to Bergamo and died, he was buried next to maestro Johann Simone Mayr, his former teacher.
| Source: | Grove's dictionary of music and musicians |
Requiem in D minor
| Period: | Early Romanticism |
| Musical form: | mass |
Messa pro Defunctis in D minor (in canto gregoriano) for three mixed voices, arranged by Giuseppe Pedemonti.
| Source: | http://www.edizionicarrara.it/pdf/Cat.OC-MESSE.pdf |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis |
Requiem movements
| Period: | Early Romanticism |
Simon Mayr wrote twenty requiem movements.
| Source: | The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis |
Movements for the Office of the Dead
| Period: | Early Romanticism |
Simon Mayr wrote one hundred eleven movements for the Office of the Dead.
| Source: | The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis |
Grande messa da requiem in G minor
| Period: | Early Romanticism |
| Composed in: | 1815 |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
| Duration: | 90' |
| Label(s): | Agora Musica AG 131.2 |
An impressive requiem of Donizetti's teacher Johann Simone Mayr: Grande messa da requiem in sol minore, for soprano, tenor, bass, voices and
orchestra, composed in 1815, is a massive 90-minute work is firmly in the monumental French style so influential at that time. Richly orchestrated (particularly thrilling, glittering brass in the Libera me), the work opens with a Requiem aeternam introduced by a funeral march and builds to an intense, 50-minute Dies irae which is fiery, catalclysmic and resigned by turns. Mayr's importance as a composer and his ability to write memorable music is confirmed even more by this magnificent requiem.
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This requiem contains:
- Requiem aeternam 9'42
- Kyrie eleison 9'52
- Dies irae 50'20
- Domine Jesu 4'40
- Sanctus 1'33
- Benedictus 1'31
- Agnus Dei 2'45
- Lux aeterna 2'24
- Libera me, Domine 6'19
- Requiem aeternam 9'42
- Kyrie eleison 9'52
- Dies irae 50'20
- Domine Jesu 4'40
- Sanctus 1'33
- Benedictus 1'31
- Agnus Dei 2'45
- Lux aeterna 2'24
- Libera me, Domine 6'19
| Source: | booklet of cd Agora 131.2 |
| Contributor: | Pentti Ruokonen |