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From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: Snap - Jones
>.Actually, Ken, Fauré was not so religious as all that; I quote from a
>convenient website
>(http://members.macconnect.com/users/j/jimbob/classical/Faure_Requiem.html):
> Fauré spent much of his life in the service of the church, but his
> personal views on religion were unconventional at best, downright cynical
> or agnostic at worst. These are his thoughts on spirituality in the
> /Requiem/:"Everything I managed to entertain in the way of religious
> illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning
> to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest."< Nox est
> perpetua una dormienda. And Verdi was an atheist, I believe. Berlioz
> wasn't too croyant, either, so that more or less wraps up 19th C requiems
> of genius...(Well, OK, Cherubini, Dvorak...)
> mj
Will no one speak up for Brahms? He wasn't much of a believer in a regular
church, and wrote his Requiem to texts from the German bible, hence its
name, 'A German Requiem'. I happen to think it's a magnificent work, both in
the music and in his choice of texts; but then, I like and admire Brahms.
best joanna
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