Jean-Claude Malgoire, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Chœur de Chambre de Namur - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm: Requiem à la mémoire de Louis XVI (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 61:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | # ALPHA966 | Recorded: 2016
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 61:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | # ALPHA966 | Recorded: 2016
Neukomm spent twenty years in the service of Prince Talleyrand, who commissioned him to write a requiem mass in memory of Louis XVI, guillotined in Paris on 21 January 1793. is was the second mass of the y he was eventually to compose, several of which were dedi- cated to monarchs. e Requiem was given at St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna on 21 January 1815 by more than three hundred singers divided into two choirs. Neukomm conducted one of them, while the other was directed by his friend Salieri.