Requiem For A King

Burlington Baroque presents the rediscovered Funeral Requiem Setting of Jean Gilles (1668 - 1705) featuring internationally acclaimed Artists-in-Residence L’Harmonie des saisons Baroque Orchestra and the Burlington Baroque Festival Singers, directed by Eric Milnes.

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Jean Gilles’ Messe des Morts, the most frequently performed Requiem in 18th-century France, will receive its regional premiere in two upcoming performances: Friday, October 30, at 7:30 p.m. at Holy Angels Church in St. Albans, and Sunday, November 1, at 4:00 p.m. at College Street Congregational Church in Burlington.

Forgotten for more than a century and a half, Gilles reemerged from obscurity in the 1950s, largely through the rediscovery of this Funeral Mass. Born in Tarascon on January 8, 1668, he began his musical life at the Cathedral of Saint-Sauveur in Aix-en-Provence as assistant to director of music Guillaume Poitevin, whom he later succeeded. In 1697, Gilles settled in Toulouse, serving as director…