Thursday 29 October, 15:00

Requiem Aeternam: Death in Classical Music

Nicolas Bucher, director of the OCG, brings expertise in programming and performance of orchestral and choral repertoire, drawing on his professional role to situate requiem works in historical and musical contexts.

This lecture examines the theme of death in classical music, focusing on Brahms’s German Requiem and other mass settings. Bucher examines compositional language, textual choices, and liturgical traditions to reveal how requiems negotiate grief, consolation and memory, and what these works tell us about changing attitudes toward death in Western music.

In French.

Place des Trois-Perdrix 5,
1204 Genève
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