Requiem (Berlioz)
| Grande Messe des morts | |
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| Requiem by Hector Berlioz | |
Title page of the first edition | |
| Opus | 5 |
| Occasion | memorial of soldiers who died in the 1830 July Revolution |
| Text | Requiem |
| Language | Latin |
| Performed | 5 November 1837 |
| Published | 1838, Paris |
| Movements | ten |
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The Grande Messe des morts (or Requiem), Op. 5, by Hector Berlioz was composed in 1837. The Grande Messe des Morts is one of Berlioz's best-known works, with a tremendous orchestration of woodwind and brass instruments, including four antiphonal offstage brass ensembles. The work derives its text from the traditional Latin Requiem Mass. It has a duration of approximately ninety minutes, although there are faster recordings of under seventy-five minutes.