page_title: Requiem (Berlioz)
section_title: Structure
hierarchical_section_title: Requiem (Berlioz) / Structure
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover page of the first edition of "Grande Messe des morts" ("Requiem") by Hector Berlioz, Paris, 1838 Русский: Обложка первого издания реквиема ("Grande Messe des morts") Гектора Берлиоза (Париж, 1838)
context_page_description: The Grande Messe des morts, Op. 5, by Hector Berlioz was composed in 1837. The Grande Messe des Morts is one of Berlioz's best-known works, with a tremendous orchestration of woodwind and brass instruments, including four antiphonal offstage brass ensembles. The work derives its text from the traditional Latin Requiem Mass. It has a duration of approximately ninety minutes, although there are faster recordings of under seventy-five minutes.
context_section_description: Berlioz's Requiem has ten movements, and the structure is as follows:
  Introit
  1. Requiem aeternam & Kyrie: Introitus
  Sequence
  2. Dies irae: Prosa, Tuba mirum
  3. Quid sum miser
  4. Rex tremendae
  5. Quaerens me
  6. Lacrimosa
  Offertory
  7. Domine Jesu Christe
  8. Hostias
  9. Sanctus
  10. Agnus Dei
caption: First edition (Paris, 1838)
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