substantiations

Updated: May 4, 2025

It managed only to express itself partially, fragmentarily, in various transformations, till, by change, it found in the idea of the Mass for the Dead its fitting opportunity. Still, it was never entirely absent from the art of Berlioz, and in the great clear sense of it gained in the "Requiem" we can perceive its various and ever-present substantiations, from the very beginning of his career.

Paul Rosenfeld - Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers