Antonio Benedetto Maria [Antonio] Puccini (30/07/1747 - 10/02/1832), an Italian composer. He is a member of the famous Italian Puccini family from Lucca. He is the son of Giacomo Puccini (1712-1781) and father of Domenico (Vincenzo Maria) Puccini (1772-1815).
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis (+ picture, from: Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale of Bologna) |
Absolution for the dead
| Period: | Classicism |
| Composed in: | 1790 |
| Musical form: | absolution |
| Text/libretto: | Latin |
| In memory of: | emperor Joseph II (13/03/1741 - 20/02/1790). |
This Absolution for the dead is for four voices and orchestra. This requiem was written in memory of emperor Joseph II (13/03/1741 - 20/02/1790).
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Joseph II
(dedicatee) |
Kyrie - Missa pro defunctis
| Period: | Early Romanticism |
| Musical form: | fragment |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
This Kyrie for the Mass of the dead is for four voices and orchestra.
| Source: | Robert Chase, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music, Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2003 |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis |
Sequenz: Dies irae
| Period: | Early Romanticism |
| Musical form: | motet |
| Text/libretto: | Thomas de Celano |
Sequenz: Dies irae for three voices and small orchestra.
| Source: | Robert Chase, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music, Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2003 |