Forrest and Haydn

“A Requiem, at its core, is a prayer for rest- traditionally, for the deceased. The five movements of Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living (2013), however, form a narrative just as much for the living, and their own struggle with pain and sorrow, as for the dead.”

Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo by Joseph Haydn for choir and orchestra is better known as the Kleine Orgelmesse (Little Organ Mass) due to an extended organ solo.