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Requiem

Present, past, future... In his Requiem, Olivier Greif superimposes different period of times in two main ways. Even though his writing is decisively contemporary, he is not afraid to evoke tradition. Indeed, the work begins with a slow psalmody with Gregorian motifs and develops by superposition and complexification, as if to signify that it exceeds time and that it dreams of universality. Throughout the work, traditional motifs and modern techniques of writing come together and enrich each other. On the other hand, in a work that evokes the "rest of death", (to use the etymological meaning of the word "requiem"), childhood soon makes an appearance in the form of nursery rhymes that are superimposed on the initial psalmody. The different periods of life jostle each other throughout the development of the entire work: apart from nursery rhymes and laments, there are even "eruption" of songs by sailors or soldiers, at the time of the traditional evocation of the last judgment, as if all of life was to be present simultaneously.
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