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Robert Wittinger

1945 -

Austria

R. Wittinger

Robert Wittinger (10/04/1945), an Austrian composer, born in Knittelfeld.

Source:

http://www.podium-wendel.de/Komponisten/Wittinger/wittinger.html

Maldoror-Requiem

Period:	Modernism
Composed in:	1986
Musical form:	free
Text/libretto:	Comte de Lautréamont and Martin Grzimek
Duration:	55'20''
Label(s):	Cadenza CAD 800 889

Maldoror-Requiem contains:
01. Introitus: Requiem aeternam et prosa (17'29)
02. Kyrie (7'28)
03. Sequentia diabolica: prosa et poesis (15'11)
04. Lacrymosa et prosa (15'20)

Source:

booklet of cd Cadenza CAD 800 889

♫ 01. Introitus: Requiem aeternam et prosa
© Cadenza CAD 800 889

♫ 02. Kyrie
© Cadenza CAD 800 889

♫ 03. Sequentia diabolica: prosa et poesis
© Cadenza CAD 800 889

♫ 04. Lacrymosa et prosa
© Cadenza CAD 800 889

Maldoror-Requiem (1986), opus 42, is for 8 soli, mixed choir, narrator, and big orchestra. The requiem is written in the period 1984 - 1986. Text is a poem "Les chants de Maldoror" by the French poet Comte de Lautréamont (ps. of Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, 1846 - 1870), who has been considered as an insane man. The lyrics are completed by Martin Grzimek (1950 - ).

Author:

Herman Ram


Cm. de Lautréamont (text)	M. Grzimek (text)

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