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Solo Voices, SATB Chorus, Orchestra - Level 3 SKU: CA.5075113 First edition. Composed by Johann Adolf Hasse. Edited by Wolfgang Hochstein. Single Part, viola. Composed 1763. Duration 48 minutes. Carus Verlag #5075100. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.5075113). ISBN 9790007248253. Key: C major. Latin.Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholic Hofkirche in Dresden. With this work, he composed a monument in music to his long-standing, generous employer, who was also King of Poland under the name August III: passionate choral movements, echoes of historic compositional styles, expressive vocal solos and arias undeniably revealing Hasse the opera composer, plus trumpets and timpani in the orchestra - all these are the ingredients of a "royal" Requiem Mass in the style of a Missa solemnis. - First edition- Passionate choral movements of medium difficulty- Expressive vocal soli- "Royal" Requiem Mass in the style of a Missa solemnisAdditional program suggestion: Miserere in C minor by Hasse (Carus 40.961).