Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Mieczyslaw Weinberg composed his Requiem Op. 96 between 1965 and 1967. Like other Soviet Requiems such as Dmitri Kabalevsky’s it does not set to music the Roman Rite liturgy but profane poems by Mikhail Dudin Munetoshi Fukugawa Federico García Lorca Dmitri Kedrin and Sara Teasdale. The use of anti-war texts links this work to Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem which Weinberg knew well. It consists of the following movements: Bread and Iron (Dmitri Kedrin) And Then…