Francisco Barbosa writes:

>Now the philosophical-esthetical question is: to me, this is the only
>"French" Requiem that touches me!  Is Faure the only one who composed a
>Requiem with a "Catholic" sensitivity? All the other requiem are remarkably
>"protestant".  Verdi one is a piece quite different from all the others.

The question immediately becomes Which French Requiems Have You Heard? Have
you heard Durufle's, for example?

Steve Schwartz