Posted by Nerkha on October 02, 19104 at 12:07:43:

In Reply to: Requiem de Gilles posted by Gies Broekhuyse on January 29, 19102 at 05:13:54:

The Requiem is not a Rameau's work. This "Mess for the Dead"has been composed by Jean Gilles, a French composer, at the end of the XVIIth century. It has been played during Rameau's funeral. It's a fantastic mess with baroc music and gregorian songs. Gilles has written it about the year 1700 for the funeral of two members of the Parliament of Paris, but it hasn't been played because of financial problems. So Gilles, furious, has kept it for his own funeral : the Requiem has been played for the first time in 1705, when Jean Gilles died. It was considered as a perfect piece, so a lot of european kings (Louis XV, etc...) chooses it for their funeral messe.
I think you can still find a magnifiscient version, directed by Joel Cohen, with a reconstitution of funeral drums parts (Gilles lived in south of France, where drums were traditionaly used during the funeral).

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