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Guido Guerrini
1890 - 1965
Italy
| G. Guerrini |
Guido Guerrini (12/09/1890 - 13/06/1965), an Italian composer and teacher of composition at the Parma Conservatory, born in Faenza, died in Rome.
| Source: | Grove's dictionary of music and musicians |
Missa pro defunctis ‘alla memoria di G. Marconi’
| Period: | Expressionism |
| Composed in: | 1939 |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
| In memory of: | Guglielmo Marconi |
This requiem is for soli, mixed choir and orchestra and written in memory of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), inventor of the radio.
Requiem settings from the 20th century are remarkable for their range and variety. Those that continue the ‘symphonic’ manner of the previous century include the settings by Maliszewski (1930), G.F. Malipiero (1938), Guido Guerrini (Missa pro defunctis ‘alla memoria di G. Marconi’, 1938/1939), Sutermeister (1952), Virgil Thomson (1960) and Frank Martin (1971/1972).
Requiem settings from the 20th century are remarkable for their range and variety. Those that continue the ‘symphonic’ manner of the previous century include the settings by Maliszewski (1930), G.F. Malipiero (1938), Guido Guerrini (Missa pro defunctis ‘alla memoria di G. Marconi’, 1938/1939), Sutermeister (1952), Virgil Thomson (1960) and Frank Martin (1971/1972).
| Author: | Steven Chang-Lin Yu |
Notable contributors to the 20th-century repertory are Bresgen, Duruflé, Guerrini, Karg-Elert, Ligeti, Lutoslawski, Maliszewski, Sutermeister, Thompson, Thomson, Zandonai and Zanella.
| Author: | James W. Pruett |
| Source: | The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians |
| G. Marconi (dedicatee) |