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  2. Requiem - Wikipedia

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    A Requiem (Latin: rest) or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead (Latin: Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead (Latin: Missa defunctorum), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the souls of the deceased, using a particular form of the Roman Missal.

  3. Requiem (Mozart) - Wikipedia

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    The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a Requiem Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Mozart composed part of the Requiem in Vienna in late 1791, but it was unfinished at his death on 5 December the same year.

  4. Requiem (Verdi) - Wikipedia

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    The Messa da Requiem is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass for four soloists, double choir and orchestra by Giuseppe Verdi. It was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni , whom Verdi admired, and therefore also referred to as the Manzoni Requiem .

  5. Music for the Requiem Mass - Wikipedia

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    Music for the Requiem Mass is any music that accompanies the Requiem, or Mass for the Dead, in the Catholic Church.This church service has inspired hundreds of compositions, including settings by Victoria, Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi, Fauré, Dvořák, Duruflé and Britten.

  6. Pie Jesu - Wikipedia

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    The settings of the Requiem Mass by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (H.234, H.263, H.269, H.427), Luigi Cherubini, Antonin Dvořák, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé, John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Kim André Arnesen and Fredrik Sixten include a "Pie Jesu" as an independent movement. Decidedly, the best known is the "Pie Jesu" from Fauré's Requiem.

  7. Requiem (Fauré) - Wikipedia

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    Page from the manuscript of the Requiem: In paradisum, m. 413, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Gabriel Fauré composed his Requiem in D minor, Op. 48, between 1887 and 1890. The choral-orchestral setting of the shortened Catholic Mass for the Dead in Latin is the best-known of his large works. Its focus is on eternal rest and consolation.

  8. Classical music - Wikipedia

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    Baroque music is characterized by the use of complex tonal counterpoint and the use of a basso continuo, a continuous bass line. Music became more complex in comparison with the simple songs of all previous periods. [67] The beginnings of the sonata form took shape in the canzona, as did a more formalized notion of theme and variations.

  9. Requiem (Rutter) - Wikipedia

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    John Rutter's Requiem is a musical setting of parts of the Latin Requiem with added psalms and biblical verses in English, completed in 1985. It is scored for soprano , mixed choir and orchestra or chamber ensemble.