Notable Compositions
Many composers have composed Requiems. Some of the most notable include the following (in chronological order):
- Ockeghem: Requiem, the earliest to survive, written sometime in the mid-to-late 15th century
- Victoria: Requiem of 1603, (part of a longer Office for the Dead)
- Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626 (1791: Mozart died before its completion)
- Cherubini: Requiem in C minor (1815)
- Berlioz: Grande Messe des morts (1837)
- Brahms: A German Requiem, Op. 45, based on passages from Luther's Bible (1869)
- Verdi: Requiem (1874)
- Dvořák: Requiem, Op. 89 (1890)
- Fauré: Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 (1890)
- Duruflé: Requiem, Op. 9, based almost exclusively on the chants from the Graduale Romanum (1947)
- Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66, which incorporated poems by Wilfred Owen (1962)
- Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles (1966)
- Penderecki: Polish Requiem (1984, revised 1993 and 2005)
- Lloyd Webber: Requiem (1985)
- Rutter: Requiem, includes Psalm 130, Psalm 23 and words from the Book of Common Prayer (1985)
- See also: Category:Requiems
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