Igor Stravinsky – Requiem Canticles

Requiem Canticles is a condensed choral-orchestral work by Igor Stravinsky, composed in 1966 during his late serialist period. Rather than setting the full Requiem Mass, Stravinsky selected specific movements to create a brief, concentrated work lasting approximately 15 minutes.

The work was premiered in 1966 in Princeton, New Jersey. At the time, Stravinsky was living in the United States and working with serial and twelve-tone techniques after decades of neoclassical composition.

Yes, Requiem Canticles is considered one of Stravinsky's final major works. Stravinsky died in 1971, and the piece is often viewed as a culmination of his late serial period and a kind of musical farewell.

The work employs twelve-tone and serialist techniques, placing it firmly in Stravinsky's late compositional period. Despite the serial method, listeners and analysts often note that Stravinsky retained his distinctive rhythmic precision and textural clarity from earlier works like The Rite of Spring.