The Requiem in F minor op. 146 is the most well-known and most important work by Franz Lachner. The composer, living for a long time in Vienna, developed as a “classicist romantic” composer, who merged classical form, baroque fugue and romantic emotional impact in a very personal style. Lachner’s Requiem shows a clear expression of his admiration for Mozart, although his music differs essentially from Mozart’s. In its content it displays both conservative, backward-looking features and extremely progressive characteristics. While an introverted mood prevails throughout most of the work, the large orchestral ensemble reveals its full effect in a few dramatic passages. Because of the work’s size and the scoring it was impossible to use the Requiem in the liturgy. But precisely its performance in a secular “forum” made it one of Lachner’s best known compositions.
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Franz Lachner
| 1803-1890Franz Lachner was active as a composer, organist and conductor.
His extensive oeuvre covers almost all genres and seems to be influenced above all by the music of Beethoven and Schubert, but also Spohr and Meyerbeer. Personal details