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Esteban de Salas y Castro

1725 - 1803

Cuba / Spain

E. de Salas y Castro

Esteban de Salas y Castro (25/12/1725 - 14/07/1803), a Spanish composer, born in Havana (Cuba was founded in 1898). He wrote beautiful liturgical music. His compositions, however, did not contain, any native musical influence.

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteban_Salas_y_Castro

Requiem (2x)

Period:	Classicism
Musical form:	masses

Salas wrote another two more Requiem Masses (besides The Misa de réquiem).

Source:	The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
Contributor:	Tassos Dimitriadis

Misa de réquiem

Period:	Classicism
Composed in:	1775c
Musical form:	mass
Text/libretto:	Latin mass
Duration:	ca. 17'
Label(s):	Milan Records 35808
	Jade 36049
	BMG 40179-2

Misa de réquiem is for 8 voices, choir, solists and orchestra. The requiem contains:
01. Introito
02. Kyrie
03. Gradual
04. Ofertorio
05. Sanctus
06. Benedictus
07. Agnus Dei
08. Comunion

Source:

http://www.cantosospeso.it/repertxt.html

♫ 01. Introito
© BMG 40179-2

♫ 02. Kyrie
© BMG 40179-2

♫ 03. Gradual
© BMG 40179-2

♫ 04. Ofertorio
© BMG 40179-2

♫ 05. Sanctus
© BMG 40179-2

♫ 06. Benedictus
© BMG 40179-2

♫ 07. Agnus Dei
© BMG 40179-2

♫ 08. Comunion
© BMG 40179-2

A mass in fa, an extraordinary beauty, modern for its time, one of the first works of him, written in Santiago.

Author:

Allejo Carpentier

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