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The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a British choral and orchestral composition by Benjamin Britten, composed mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. The War Requiem was performed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid.
El Réquiem de guerra, Op. 66 (título original: War Requiem) es un réquiem compuesto por Benjamin Britten para la reconsagración de la Catedral de Coventry el 30 de mayo de 1962 luego de que esta fuera destruida durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
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Y la obra que surgió fue la Sinfonia da Requiem: una vergüenza para todos los interesados cuando Britten entregó la partitura terminada y los japoneses la rechazaron airados, disgustados con su solemnidad e indignados por sus referencias al dogma cristiano.
Follow the text of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, compiled from poems by Wilfred Owen and the Latin Mass for the Dead.
Benjamin Britten’s pacifist masterpiece War Requiem, premiered in 1962, is among the greatest settings of a liturgical text, linking past and present by interweaving poems on the horrors of war by WWI poet Wilfred Owen.
In 1962 the world’s attention turned to war-torn Coventry. In the city's newly built cathedral, Britten’s War Requiem was about to receive its symbolic world premiere. Michael White tells the story.
