Requiem, Op. 48 (final version – 1900)

Gabriel Faur?”Requiem” is the best known of the composer’s large works. Seemingly not written for the death of any particular person, he wrote of the work, “Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.” Though first written in 1887-88, this final version for full orchestra was completed in 1900, and it is this version that was performed at Faur?s own funeral in 1924. The piano reduction for this vocal score has been completed by Jean Roger Ducasse.r