For big band, mixed chorus, 2 soprano soli and baritone solo (or tenor).
Composition Year 1993
Poet Dödsmässan (Requiem Mass), trad.
Scoring 2000-2440-12-0-5sax-pf-db-drums
Durata 45 min
World Premiere 1993-04-18
Venue Stockholm (Klara Kyrka), Sweden
Performers Lena Willemark, Margareta Jalkéus, Olle Persson, Nils Lindberg Storband, cond.
Gustaf Sjökvist
Language Latin
To try to categorise the music by Nils Lindberg is virtually impossible.
The well-known Swedish music critic Seth Karlsson once described him as a kind of musical knight, riding on the frontiers of music.
He sees Nils as someone who resides in a musical borderland.
As his coat-of-arms he bears the triangle.
One corner represents jazz, one symphonic works and the third folk music.