It is regarded by many as his masterpiece in the non-operatic sphere: Britten's War Requiem, premiered in 1962 to celebrate the opening of the new cathedral at Coventry, built to replace the one destroyed during the war. Britten used the opportunity to write a milestone of post-war music history: In memory of the war dead he combined texts of a Latin mass with 20th-century poems and set his deeply held pacifist and humanitarian beliefs to music. The requiem's direct style has overwhelmed audiences for more than fifty years.
| Type (fx Instrumentskole o.lign.) | Stemme |
| Sideantal | 8 |
| Media (fx Bog, CD, DVD m.m.) | Noder |
| Publisher/Producent | Boosey and Hawkes |
| Bidragydere | Britten, Benjamin(Composer) |
| Sprog | Latin |
| ISMN | 9790060015588 |