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'''Genre:''' {{pcat|Sacred| music}}, [[:Category:Requiems|Requiem]] <br>
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'''Instruments:''' {{OrchAcc|Full orchestra}}, 4 additional brass orchestras<br>
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Full score

Editor: Philip Legge   Copyright: 2000 Philip Legge
  • 1. Requiem et Kyrie. Introït.
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Edition notes: (added 2000-09-26).   Score information: Unknown   
  • 2. Dies iræ. Prosa.
  • 3. Quid sum miser
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Edition notes: (added 2000-09-28).   Score information: Unknown   
  • 4. Rex tremendæ
  • 5. Quærens me
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Edition notes: (added 2000-09-28).   Score information: Unknown   
  • 6. Lacrimosa
  • 7. Offertoire. (Chœur des âmes du Purgatoire.)
  • 8. Hostias
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Edition notes: (added 2000-09-28).   Score information: Unknown   
  • 9. Sanctus
  • 10. Agnus Dei
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Edition notes: (added 2000-09-28).   Score information: Unknown   

Arrangement for SATB

Editor: Thomas Lloyd (submitted 2008-07-30).   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes:Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment.
  • 1. Requiem et Kyrie. Introït.
CPDL #17809:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 4
Score information: Letter, 15 pages, 203 kB   
  • 2. Dies iræ. Prosa.
CPDL #17810:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 4
Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 201 kB   
  • 3. Quid sum miser
CPDL #17811:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 4
Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 45 kB   
  • 4. Rex tremendæ
CPDL #17812:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 4
Score information: Letter, 15 pages, 181 kB   
  • 5. Quærens me
CPDL #17813:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 4
Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 64 kB   
  • 6. Lacrimosa
CPDL #17814:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 4
Score information: Letter, 14 pages, 208 kB   
  • 7. Offertoire. (Chœur des âmes du Purgatoire.)
  • 8. Hostias
CPDL #17815:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 4
Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 44 kB   
  • 9a. Sanctus
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Score information: Letter, 39 pages, 3 kB   
  • 9b. Hosanna
CPDL #17817:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 4
Score information: Letter, 69 pages, 4 kB   
  • 10. Agnus Dei
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Score information: Letter, 13 pages, 168 kB   

General Information

Title: Grande messe des morts, »Requiem«, Op. 5, H 75
Composer: Hector Berlioz

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicings: SSTTBB; with contraltos or and tenor solo in Sanctus

Genre: SacredMassRequiem

Language: Latin
Instruments: Full orchestra, 4 additional brass orchestras
Published: Old Berlioz Edition, complete works, pub. 1900-1907

Description: Composed in 1838, this choral work uses the largest orchestral forces of any work prior to the 20th Century.

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Original text and translations

Berlioz's setting of the traditional text of the mass for the dead reorders and omits some lines. Words in round brackets have been inserted or rearranged from another part of the text. Words denoted in square brackets have been moved to a different place in the text as indicated, or otherwise omitted altogether. Refer to the Requiem page for translations.


Latin.png Latin text

1. Réquiem ætérnam dona eis, Dómine:
et lux perpétua lúceat eis.

Te decet hymnus Deus in Sion,
et tibi reddétur votum in Jerúsalem:
exáudi oratiónem meam,
ad te caro omnis véniet.

Requiem æternam dona (defunctis), Domine:
et lux perpetua luceat eis, (perpetua lux eis luceat!)

Kyrie eleison! Christe eleison! Kyrie eleison!

2. Prosa
Dies iræ, dies illa,
Solvet sæclum in favíllâ:
Quantus tremor est futúrus,
Quando judex est ventúrus!
Teste David cum Sibyllâ.
Cuncta stricte discussúrus!

Tuba mirum spargens sonum
Per sepúlcra regiónum,
Coget omnes ante thronum.

Mors stupébit et natúra,
Cum resúrget creatúra,
Judicánti responsúra.

Liber scriptus proferétur,
In quo totum continétur,
Unde mundus judicétur.

Judex ergo cum sedébit,
Quidquid latet apparébit:
Nil inúltum remanébit.

3. Quid sum miser tunc dictúrus?
Quem patrónum rogatúrus?
Cum vix justus sit secúrus.

[Rex treméndæ... moved to no. 4]

(Recordáre Jesu pie,
Quod sum causa tuæ viæ:
Ne me perdas illâ die!

Oro supplex et acclínis,
Cor contrítum quasi cinis:
Gere curam mei finis.)

4. (O) Rex treméndæ majestátis,
Qui salvándos salvas gratis,
Salva me, fons pietátis!

Recordáre Jesu pie,
Quod sum causa tuæ viæ:
Ne me perdas illâ die!

Confutátis maledíctis, (Jesu,)
Flammis ácribus addíctis,
Voca me [cum benedíctis.]
(et de profúndo lacu!
Líbera me de ore léonis,
Ne cadam in obscurum.
Ne absórbeat me Tártarus!)

5. Quærens me, sedísti lassus:
Redemiísti crucem passus:
Tantus labor non sit cassus!

Juste judex ultiónis,
Donum fac remissiónis,
Ante diem ratiónis!

Ingemisco, tamquam reus:
[Culpa rubet vultus meus:
Parce, Deus,] Supplicánti parce Deus!
Preces meæ non sunt dignæ:
Sed tu bonus fac benígne,
Ne perénni cremer igne!

Qui Maríam absolvísti,
Et latrónem exaudísti,
Mihi quoque spem dedísti.

Inter oves locum præsta,
Et ab hædis me sequéstra,
Státuens in parte dextra!

[Confutátis maledíctis... moved to no. 4;
Oro supplex... moved to no. 3]

6. Lacrimósa dies illa,
Quâ resúrget ex favíllâ
(Homo reus) Judicándus [homo reus:
Huic ergo parce Deus.]
Pie Jesu Dómine,
dona eis réquiem (ætérnam, Dómine!)
[Amen. moved to no. 7]

7. Dómine Jesu Christe, Rex glóriæ,
líbera ánimas ómnium fidélium defunctórum de pœnis inférni, et de profúndo lacu:
[líbera eas de ore léonis, ne absórbeat eas tártarus, ne cadant in obscúrum: moved to no. 4]
sed sígnifer sanctus Míchael repræséntet eas in lucem sanctam:
Quam olim Abrahæ promisísti, et sémini ejus.
(Amen.)

8. Hóstias et preces tibi [Dómine] laudis offérimus:
[tu] súscipe pro animábus illis,
quarum hódie memóriam fácimus:
[fac eas, Dómine, de morte transíre ad vitam.
Quam olim Abrahæ promisísti, et sémini ejus.]

9. Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dóminus Deus Sábaoth.
Pleni sunt cæli et terra glória tua.
Hosánna in excélsis.
[Benedíctus qui venit in nómine Dómini.
Hosánna in excélsis.]

10. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: dona eis requiem, requiem sempiternam!

Te decet hymnus Deus in Sion;
Et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem;
exaudi orationem meam!
Ad te caro omnis veniet.

Requiem æternam dona defunctis, Domine
et lux perpetua luceat eis, perpetua lux eis luceat!

Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine!
Et lux perpetua luceat eis
cum sanctis tuis in æternum, Domine, quia pius es!
Amen.