Tag: Requiem für Mignon

• A different sort of Requiem

  June 19, 2017

  Choral, Classical music, Orchestral, Vocal

  Requiem für Mignon, Schumann

  Schumann’s Requiem für Mignon, as its title might suggest, isn’t a setting of the standard liturgical text of the mass for the dead. The words come from Goethe’s novel Wilhelm Meister and Mignon is the strange young girl whose poem (much set by composers) Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn (Do you know the land where…