Gottwald/Fauré: Deux Melodies series__Das Töchterlein des Jairus op. 32 (Rheinberger) The "Requiem in B flat

The "Requiem in B flat major" is Johann Michael Haydn’s second setting of the liturgical text of the Mass of the dead (another Requiem

Nothing is known about the occasion or date of its composition

thus enabling them make their entrances in the movements which follow these recitatives

The "Geistliche Chor-Music 1648"

Gottwald/Fauré: Deux Melodies series__Das Töchterlein des Jairus op. 32 (Rheinberger) The "Requiem in B flatIn the 1880s Faur&eacute, discovered the poetry of Paul Verlaine, which found its expression in the song cycle La Bonne Chanson (1892 93), upon which the present transcription of La Lune blanche is based. In this cycle Faur&eacute, pursued the plan to condense the songs into a cycle through thematic development. The cycle entitled Mirages was composed in 1919. In the last song, Danseuse, Faur&eacute, reduces the music to a bare rhythmic ostinato,