Requiem: Text
Richard Shindle
with the text in the Liber Usualis. Then I compared it with the Verdi
Requiem. The main difference is that Verdi adds the "Libera Me' from the
Burial Service as the final number. With the exception of those portions of
the Requiem Mass that are intoned by the celebrant, and the Gradual, Tract,
and Dismissal which are traditionally sung in chant. There are absolutely
no omissions of text in the either Mozart's or Verdi's Requiem. The
$64,000.00 dollar question is how a person who has sung Mozart's Requiem in
its completed state by Süssmayr and others, decide that the text is
imcomplete without checking and making a complete fool of himself over the
Internet?
Text of the Requiem Mass from the Liber Usualis
Introit:
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Ps. Te decet hymnus Deus in Sion, et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem:
exaudi orationem meam, ad te omnis caro veniet.
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis.
[The text in the Mozart Requiem in the New Mozart Edition, same, no
omissions]
Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison (also set by Mozart)
[NB: Gloria and Credo are not sung in the Requiem Mass]
Collect and Epistle are intoned by the Celebrant, therefore not set to music
The Gradual and Tract are sung in Gregorian Chant, only the Renaissance
Composer set them polyphonically in the later 15th Century. He used the
pre-tridentine text for these items. These items are more traditionally set
to music.
Sequence
(1) Dies irae, dies illa
Solvet saeclum in favilla:
Teste David cum Sybilla.
Quantus tremor est futurus,
Quando judex est venturus,
Cuncta stricte discussurus!
(2) Tuba mirum spargens sonum
Per sepulchra regionum,
Coget omnes ante thronum.
Mors stupebit et natura.
Cum resurget creatura,
Judicanti responsura.
Liber scriptus proferetur,
In quo totum continetur,
Unde mundus judicetur.
Judex ergo cum sedebit,
Quidquid latet apparebit:
Nil inultum remanebit.
Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?
Quem patrontum rogatorus?
Cum vix justus sit securius.
(3) Rex tremendae majestatis,
Qui salvandos salvas gratis,
Salva me, fons pietatis.
(4) Recordare Jesu pie,
Quod sum causa tuae viae:
Ne me perdas illa die.
Quarens me, sedisti lassus:
Redemisti crucem passus:
Tantus labor non sit cassus.
Juste judex ultionis,
Donum fac remissionis,
Ante diem rationis.
Ingemisco, tanquam reus:
Culpa rubet vultus meus:
Supplicanti parce Deus.
Qui Mariam absolvisti,
Et latronem exaudisti,
Mihi quoque spem dedisti.
Preces meae non sunt dignae:
Sed tu bonus fac benigne,
Ne perenni cremer igne.
Inter oves locum praesta,
Et ab haedis me sequestra,
Statuens in parte destra,
(5) Confutatis maledictis,
Flammis scribus addictis,
Voca me cum benedictis.
Oro supplex et acclinis,
Cor contritum quasi cinis:
Gere curam mei finis.
(6) Lacrimosa dies illa,
Quia resurget ex favilla
Judicandus homo reus:
Huic ergo parce Deus.
Pie Jesu Domine,
dona eis requiem. Amen
[Text in the Mozart Requiem in the New Mozart Edition, same, no
omissions].
Gospel: intoned by Celebrant
Offertory
Domine Jesu Christe. Rex gloriae, libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum
de poenis inferni, et de profundo lacu: libera eas de ore leonis, ne
absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum: sed signifer sanctus Michael
repraesentet eas in lucem sanctam: Quam olimAbrahae promisisti, et semini
ejus:
V. Hostia et preces tibi Domine laudis offerimus: tu suscipe pro
animabus illis, quarum hodie memoriam facimus: fac eas, Domine, de morte
transire ad viam.
Quam olim Abrahae promisisti, et semini ejus.
[Text in the Mozart Requiem in the New Mozart Edition, same, no
omissions]
Secret: intoned by Celebrant
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt caeli et terra
gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.
Hosanna in excelsis.
[Text complete in Süssmayr's completion of the Requiem, no omissions]
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: dona eis requiem.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: dona eis requiem.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: dona eis requiem sempternam.
[Text complete in Süssmayr's completion of the Requiem, no omissions]
Communion
Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine: Cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es.
V. Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es.
[Text complete in Süssmayr's completion of the Requiem, no omissions}
Postcommunion (intoned by Celebrant)
Dismissal: Requiesacnt in pace,. Amern (Sung in Gregorian Chant)
Peter T. Daniels
everything I post to this newsgroup, but you're simply wrong here.
I quote from Roger Fiske's chapter in Arthur Jacobs's Pelican survey *Choral Music*
(1963). "On his death-bed he wrote what survives of the music, which is less than
survives of the Mass in C minor. Only the first two movements are entirely his; and of
course their repetitions much later in the work. Of the rest, Mozart completed about
half in vocal score, and this was orchestrated by his friend Franz Xaver Süssmayer
(1766-1803), who composed entirely the Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei. How far he
worked on sketches of ideas which Mozart played to him on the piano will never be known.
Few of us would guess on internal evidence which parts of the work were his, which is
another way of saying that he did his work well. And never better than in the Lacrymosa,
of which Mozart is said to have written the vocal parts only of the first eight bars;
the completion is miraculously good. Nevertheless, the mixed authorship gives the work
an uncomfortable feel, and there really is not enough of it in Mozart's hand to justify
the number of performances it receives." (pp. 179f.)
I don't know who "et al." or "others" may be; perhaps you are familiar with some corrupt
and misguided 19th-century "completion" by other hands.
Unfortunately my collection of vocal scores is inaccessible and I cannot investigate
what they may have added.
--
Peter T. Daniels gram...@worldnet.att.net
Richard Shindle
Peter T. Daniels <gram...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:38EF23...@worldnet.att.net...
Mr. Daniels
Thank you for your quote from Roger Fiske of 1963. But you should rely on
more authoritative sources. May I recoomend the following:
Neue Mozart Ausgabe: SerieI. Geistliches Gesangwerke (Sacred Vocal Music);
Werkgruppe (Category) 1. Messen und Requiem; Abteilung 2: Requiem (in 2
volumes), Ed. by Leopold Novak
Teilband 1: Mozarts Fragment
Teildband 1: A. Mozarts Fragment mit Eyeblers Ergänzungen
B. Das von Süssmayr vervollständiste Requiem
Fascimile Edtion in *Documenta Musicologica*, XXVII
in two volumes, ed. and commented upon by Günther Brosche, 1990
1. A. Facsimile of Mozart's autograph of the Introit and Kyrie,
Süssmayr's
copy and completion of the remaining movements.
B.Facsimile of Mozart's autograph draft of the 6 movements
comprising
the Dies Irae and the two movements comprising the Offertory.
2. Commentary
Here you may put your practise in calligraphy to a test.
The most important study by Christoph Wolff who is prepparing the Critical
Report for the two volumes in the Neue Mozart Ausgabe
*Mozart's Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studied - Documents- Score*
published by the University of California Press
I only contradict you when you are absolutely wrong, and have such a biased
opinion such as you had on the monodists of the early seventeenth century.
It is the manner in which you come back at me that makes you your own
worst enemy.
rema