Johann Valentin [Valentin] Rathgeber (03/04/1682 - 02/06/1750), a German composer (from Ober-Elsbach) and since 1711 Benedictine. Since 1721 he published a lot of church music. Rathgeber wrote from 1721 till 1743 a lot of church music: 164 offertories, 44 Mary antiphons, 43 masses, 36 hymns, 16 arias, 14 vespers, 13 litanies, 12 requiems, 6 Miserere, 6 Tantum ergo, 3 Tenebrae, 2 Te Deum.
Requiem
Period: | Baroque |
Musical form: | mass |
Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
Requiem (Op.19), for three voices and organ,
Source: | Fliegende Blätter für Katholische Kirchenmusik, Volumes 42-43 |
Requiems (2x)
Period: | Baroque |
Composed in: | 1721 |
Musical form: | masses |
Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
This two requiem masses (Op.1) are for four voices, two violins and basso continuo published in the second edition of his Octava Musica, opus 1, in 1728 (first edition in 1721).
Requiem
Period: | Baroque |
Composed in: | 1725 |
Musical form: | mass |
Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
This requiem mass (Op.3) is for four voices, two violins, two trumpets ad lib and basso continuo, published in his Novena Principalis Constantiniana, opus 3, in 1725.
Requiem (6x)
Period: | Baroque |
Composed in: | 1731 |
Musical form: | masses |
Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
This six requiem masses (Op.8) are for four voices, two violins, two trumpets ad lib, three trombones ad lib and basso continuo, published in his Harmonia Lugubris, opus 8, in 1731.
Requiem (2x)
Period: | Baroque |
Composed in: | 1732 |
Musical form: | masses |
Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
This two requiem masses (Op.12) are for one to four voices, one to two violins, two trumpets ad lib and basso continuo, published in his Missale Tum Rurale Tum Civile, opus 12, in 1733.
Messa da Requiem (2x)
Period: | Baroque |
Musical form: | masses |
Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
Two Messa da Requiem, (Op.21) for four voices and instrumants.
Source: | Robert Chase, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music, Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2003 |
Requiem rurale
Period: | Baroque |
Musical form: | mass |
Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
This unpublished Requiem rurale is for soprano, alto, bass ad lib, two horns and organ.