Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970)

Requiem für einen jungen Dichter (1967 -1969)

Lingual for reciters, soprano, baritone, three choirs, electronic sounds, orchestra, jazz-combo and organ
[Requiem pour un jeune poète]

electronic work

  • General information
    • Composition date : 1967 - 1969
    • Duration : 1 h 5 mn
    • Publisher : Schott
    • Commission: WDR, Cologne
    • Dedication : « Ad honorem Sancti Hermanni Josephi »
    • Libretto (details, author) :

      documents d’actualité et divers

Detailed formation
  • soloists : 2 narrators, solo soprano, solo baritone
  • mixed choir, mixed choir, mixed choir
  • 4 flutes (also 4 piccolos), 4 oboes (also 3 oboes d'amore, 1 English horn), 4 clarinets (also 1 bass clarinet), alto saxophone, tenor saxophone (also soprano saxophone, baritone saxophone), 3 bassoons (also 1 contrabassoon), 5 horns (also 1 tuba), 4 trumpets [en ut] , bass trumpet, 5 trombones (also 1 contrabass trombone), contrabass tuba, timpani, 3 percussionists, harp, mandolin, accordion, 2 pianos, organ, 10 cellos, 8 double basses, saxophone [jazz-combo] , cornet [jazz-combo] , percussionist [jazz-combo] , piano [jazz-combo] , electric bass [jazz-combo]

Premiere information

  • Date : 11 December 1969
    Location :

    Allemagne, Düsseldorf


    Performers :

    Hans Franzen et Matthias Fuchs : récitants, Edda Moser : soprano, Günter Reich : baryton, Manfred-Schoof-Quintett, Chœur de la Radio de Cologne (direction : Herbert Schernus), Orchestre Symphonique de la Radio de Cologne, direction : Michael Gielen.

Information on the electronics
Electronic device : sons fixés sur support