Gabriel faure biography requiem pie jesu lyrics
Gabriel faure biography requiem pie jesu lyrics
Gabriel faure biography requiem pie jesu lyrics meaning.
Pie Jesu
Text from the "Dies irae" often used in music
"Pie Jesu" (PEE-ay-YAY-zu; original Latin: "Pie Iesu" /ˈpi.eˈje.su/) is a text from the final (nineteenth) couplet of the hymn "Dies irae", and is often included in musical settings of the Requiem Mass as a motet.
The phrase means "pious Jesus" in the vocative.
Popular settings
The settings of the Requiem Mass by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (H.234, H.263, H.269, H.427), Luigi Cherubini, Antonin Dvořák, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé, John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Kim André Arnesen and Fredrik Sixten include a "Pie Jesu" as an independent movement.
Decidedly, the best known is the "Pie Jesu" from Fauré's Requiem. Camille Saint-Saëns, who died in 1921, said of Fauré's "Pie Jesu": "Just as Mozart's is the only 'Ave verum corpus', this is the only 'Pie Jesu'."[1]
Andrew Lloyd Webber's setting of "Pie Jesu" in his Requiem (1985) has also become well known and has been widely recorded, including by Sarah Brightman,