Messa da Requiem: Critical Edition Study Score (The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, Series III: Sacred Music Book 3)

The Works of Giuseppe Verdi is the first critical edition of the composer’s oeuvre. Together with his operas, the series presents his songs, his choral music and sacred pieces, and his string quartet and other instrumental works. This edition of __Messa da Requiem__ is based on Verdi’s autograph score and other original sources. The appendices include two pieces from the compositional history of the __Requiem__: an early version of the __Libera me__, composed in 1869 as part of a collaborative work planned as a memorial to Rossini; and the __Liber scriptus__, which in the original score of the Manzoni memorial __Requiem__ was composed as a fugue for chorus. The introduction to the score traces the complex compositional and performance histories of the __Requiem__ and discusses the work’s problems of instrumentation and notation, while the critical commentary gives a full description of the sources and an account of all editorial decisions.