Salvador Giner y Vidal (19/01/1832 - 03/11/1911), a Spanish composer, from Valencia, pupil of Pascual Pérez Gascon.
| Source: | The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians and Propylaën - Welt Der Musik - Die Komponisten |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis (picture) |
Requiem
| Period: | Romanticism |
| Composed in: | 1878 |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
| In memory of: | Maria de las Mercedes |
This requiem mass has been written in 1878 for the funeral of Maria de las Mercedes (24/06/1860 - 26/06/1878) Queen of Spain, wife of Alfonso XII (1857-1885) King of
Spain.
| Source: | The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians and Propylaën - Welt der Musik - Die Komponisten |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis |
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Maria de las Mercedes
(dedicatee) |
Requiem
| Period: | Romanticism |
| Composed in: | 1880 |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
| In memory of: | Cristobal Pascual y Genis |
This requiem mass has been written in 1880 after the death of Cristobal Pascual y Genis.
| Source: | The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians and Propylaën - Welt der Musik - Die Komponisten |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis |
Requiem (6x)
| Period: | Expressionism |
| Musical form: | masses |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
Giner y Vidal wrote six requiem masses (besides the requiems of 1878 and 1880),
some for unaccompanied chorus and some with orchestra.
| Source: | The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians and Propylaën - Welt der Musik - Die Komponisten |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis |
Responsories
| Period: | Expressionism |
| Musical form: | responsory |
| Text/libretto: | Latin |
Giner y Vidal wrote some Responsories for the dead.
| Source: | The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians and Propylaën - Welt der Musik - Die Komponisten |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis |