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{{Short description|Collaborative setting of the Requiem Mass}}
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The '''''Requiem of Reconciliation''''' was a collaborative work written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of [[World War II]]. It sets the [[Catholic church|Catholic]] mass for the dead in fourteen sections, each written by a different composer from a country involved in the war.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/requiem-of-reconciliation|title=Requiem of Reconciliation|website=Gramophone|author=Edward Greenfield|access-date=5 April 2025}}</ref> It was commissioned by the [[Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart]] in [[Stuttgart]], Germany, and first performed by the [[Gächinger Kantorei]], the [[Kraków Chamber Choir]] and the [[Israel Philharmonic Orchestra]], conducted by [[Helmuth Rilling]]. A two-CD set documenting this performance was released in 1995.<ref>[https://www.discogs.com/release/13479936-Various-G%C3%A4chinger-Kantorei-Stuttgart-Krakauer-Kammerchor-Israel-Philharmonic-Orchestra-Helmuth-Rill Requiem Of Reconciliation / Helmuth Rilling] Hänssler 1995</ref>

==Sections of the work==
# Prolog: ''Hör'' (by [[Luciano Berio]], Italy)<ref>[http://www.requiemsurvey.org/composers.php?id=71 Luciano Berio, Prolog]</ref>
# ''Introitus'' and ''Kyrie'' (by [[Friedrich Cerha]], Austria)
# ''Dies irae'' (by [[Paul-Heinz Dittrich]], Germany)
# ''Judex ergo'' (by [[Marek Kopelent]], Czech Republic)
# ''Juste judex'' (by [[John Harbison]], US)
# ''Confutatis'' (by [[Arne Nordheim]], Norway)
# ''Interludium'' (by [[Bernard Rands]], UK/US)
# ''Offertorium'' (by [[Marc-André Dalbavie]], France)
# ''Sanctus'' (by [[Judith Weir]], UK)
# ''Agnus Dei'' (by [[Krzysztof Penderecki]], Poland)
# ''Communio I'' (by [[Wolfgang Rihm]], Germany)
# ''Communio II: Lux aeterna'' (by [[Alfred Schnittke]], Russia, left incomplete due to illness and completed by [[Gennady Rozhdestvensky|Gennadi Rozhdestvensky]])
# ''Responsorium'' (by [[Joji Yuasa]], Japan)
# Epilog: ''Inscription on a Grave in Cornwall'' (by [[György Kurtág]], Hungary)

==References==
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[[Category:1995 compositions]]
[[Category:Requiem Masses|Various]]
[[Category:Collaborations in classical music]]
[[Category:Compositions by Luciano Berio]]
[[Category:Compositions by Friedrich Cerha]]
[[Category:Compositions by Paul-Heinz Dittrich]]
[[Category:Compositions by Marek Kopelent]]
[[Category:Compositions by John Harbison]]
[[Category:Compositions by Arne Nordheim]]
[[Category:Compositions by Bernard Rands]]
[[Category:Compositions by Marc-André Dalbavie]]
[[Category:Compositions by Judith Weir]]
[[Category:Choral compositions by Krzysztof Penderecki]]
[[Category:Compositions by Wolfgang Rihm]]
[[Category:Compositions by Alfred Schnittke]]
[[Category:Compositions by Joji Yuasa]]
[[Category:Compositions by György Kurtág]]

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