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*[[Requiem aeternam (Rafael Sales Arantes)|Rafael Sales Arantes]]
*[[Requiem aeternam (Rafael Sales Arantes)|Rafael Sales Arantes]] (only ''Introitus'' available)
*[[Missa pro defunctis (Matteo Asola)|Matteo Asola]]
*[[Missa pro defunctis (Matteo Asola)|Matteo Asola]]
*[[Grande messe des morts, H 75 (Hector Berlioz)|Hector Berlioz]]
*[[Grande messe des morts, H 75 (Hector Berlioz)|Hector Berlioz]]
*Heinrich Biber
**[[Requiem in f (Heinrich Biber)|Requiem ex F con terza minore (in F minor)]] (only ''Introitus'' and ''Sequentia'' available)
*[[Introit (Missa pro defunctis) (Claudio Casciolini)|Claudio Casciolini]] (only ''Introitus'' available)
*[[Introit (Missa pro defunctis) (Claudio Casciolini)|Claudio Casciolini]] (only ''Introitus'' available)
*Chant
*Chant
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*[[Requiem in C Minor (Luigi Cherubini)|Luigi Cherubini]]
*[[Requiem in C Minor (Luigi Cherubini)|Luigi Cherubini]]
*[[Requiem aeternam (Peter Cornelius)|Peter Cornelius]]
*[[Requiem aeternam (Peter Cornelius)|Peter Cornelius]]
*[[Requiem (Adrian Cuello)|Adrian Cuello]]
*Carl Ludwig Drobisch
*Carl Ludwig Drobisch
**[[Requiem No. 1 in D minor (Carl Ludwig Drobisch)|Requiem No. 1 in D minor ]]
**[[Requiem No. 1 in D minor (Carl Ludwig Drobisch)|Requiem No. 1 in D minor]]
**[[Requiem No. 2 in D minor (Carl Ludwig Drobisch)|Requiem No. 2 in D minor]]
**[[Requiem No. 2 in D minor (Carl Ludwig Drobisch)|Requiem No. 2 in D minor]]
**[[Requiem No. 3 in Eb Major (Carl Ludwig Drobisch)|Requiem No. 3 in Eb Major]]
**[[Requiem No. 3 in Eb Major (Carl Ludwig Drobisch)|Requiem No. 3 in E{{flat}} Major]]
*[[Requiem (Caspar Ett)|Caspar Ett]]
*[[Requiem (Caspar Ett)|Caspar Ett]]
*[[Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 (Gabriel Fauré)|Gabriel Fauré]]
*[[Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 (Gabriel Fauré)|Gabriel Fauré]]
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*[[Requiem (José Maurício Nunes Garcia)|José Mauricio Nunes Garcia]]
*[[Requiem (José Maurício Nunes Garcia)|José Mauricio Nunes Garcia]]
*[[Zweites Requiem in C-moll, Op. 21 (Joseph Gruber)|Joseph Gruber]]
*[[Zweites Requiem in C-moll, Op. 21 (Joseph Gruber)|Joseph Gruber]]
*[[Requiem 'Canario' (Paul van Gulick)|Paul van Gulick]]
*[[Missa de Requiem (P.A. Halik)|P. A. Halik]]
*[[Missa de Requiem (P.A. Halik)|P. A. Halik]]
*[[Deutsches Requiem (Manfred Hößl)|Manfred Hößl]]
*[[Requiem in Es (V.V. Hausmann)|V.V. Hausmann]]


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*[[Requiem Solemne (Johann Michael Haydn)|Michael Haydn]]
*[[Deutsches Requiem (Manfred Hößl)|Manfred Hößl]]
*[[Missa de difunts II (Benet Julià)|Benet Julià]]
*[[Missa de difunts II (Benet Julià)|Benet Julià]]
*[[Missa di Requiem (Frans Joseph Krafft)|Frans Joseph Krafft]]
*[[Missa di Requiem (Frans Joseph Krafft)|Frans Joseph Krafft]]
*[[Requiem (Huub de Lange)|Huub de Lange]]
*[[Missa pro defunctis (Duarte Lobo)|Duarte Lobo]]
*[[Missa pro defunctis (Duarte Lobo)|Duarte Lobo]]
*[[Requiem (Huub de Lange)|Huub de Lange]]
*[[Requiem (Claudio Macchi)|Claudio Macchi]]
*[[Requiem (Claudio Macchi)|Claudio Macchi]]
*Joseph Michel
*Joseph Michel
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**[[Requiem No. 2 (Joseph Michl)|Requiem No. 2]]
**[[Requiem No. 2 (Joseph Michl)|Requiem No. 2]]
*Cristóbal de Morales
*Cristóbal de Morales
**[[Missa pro defunctis a 4 (Cristóbal de Morales)|Missa pro defunctis a 4]]
**[[Missa pro defunctis a 4 (Cristóbal de Morales)|Missa pro defunctis à 4]]
**[[Missa pro defunctis a 5 (Cristóbal de Morales)|Missa pro defunctis a 5]]
**[[Missa pro defunctis a 5 (Cristóbal de Morales)|Missa pro defunctis à 5]]
*[[Requiem, KV 626 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]
*[[Requiem, KV 626 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]
*[[Missa pro defunctis (Johannes Ockeghem)|Johannes Ockeghem]]
*[[Missa pro defunctis (Johannes Ockeghem)|Johannes Ockeghem]]
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*[[Requiem, Op. 54 (Camille Saint-Saëns)|Camille Saint-Saëns]]
*[[Requiem, Op. 54 (Camille Saint-Saëns)|Camille Saint-Saëns]]
*[[Requiem aeternam (Joseph G. Stephens)|Joseph G. Stephens]]
*[[Requiem aeternam (Joseph G. Stephens)|Joseph G. Stephens]]
*[[Requiem (Franz von Suppé)|Franz von Suppé]]
*[[Agenda Defunctorum - Ad Missam (Juan Vasquez)|Juan Vasquez]]
*[[Agenda Defunctorum - Ad Missam (Juan Vasquez)|Juan Vasquez]]
*[[Requiem (Giuseppe Verdi)|Giuseppe Verdi]]  
*[[Requiem (Giuseppe Verdi)|Giuseppe Verdi]]  
*Tomás Luis de Victoria
*Tomás Luis de Victoria
**[[Missa Pro defunctis a 4 (Tomás Luis de Victoria)|Missa Pro defunctis a 4]]
**[[Missa Pro defunctis a 4 (Tomás Luis de Victoria)|Missa Pro defunctis à 4]]
**[[Officium defunctorum a 6 (Tomás Luis de Victoria)|Officium defunctorum a 6]]
**[[Officium defunctorum a 6 (Tomás Luis de Victoria)|Officium defunctorum à 6]]
*[[Requiem (Franz von Suppé)|Franz von Suppé]]


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The Requiem Mass (Totenmesse, Messe des Mortis, Messe des morts, or Missa pro defunctis), a mass honoring the dead, takes its name from the first Latin word of the Introit, which begins Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine (Grant them eternal rest, O Lord).

A musical setting of the requiem differs from the normal sung Mass in that it not only includes certain items of the ordinary mass and excludes others, but also includes the Introit, Gradual, Offertory, and Communion sentences from the Proper. The Gloria and Credo are omitted, and a Tract is substituted for the Alleluia. This is followed by the Sequence (Dies irae), which is often is a major dramatic element in the composition. Sometimes responses and other texts are added from the burial service, which usually follows directly after the Mass.

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Original texts and translations

Different composers have set different parts of the Latin Requiem Mass. The liturgical movements are as follows:

The Gradual and Tract are not usually set by composers. Some composers have appended texts from the burial service:

Some settings also contain the following motet:

The Gloria and Credo, normally part of the Mass ordinary, are omitted from the requiem on the grounds that such overtly joyful texts would be out of place in a Mass for the dead.

Some composers have varied the form considerably: where previous French composers had often set the Sequence (Dies irae) in its own right, Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Duruflé did not set it at all in their Requiems. Hector Berlioz reshuffled and slightly altered the lyrics of the Sequence.

The famous Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria is actually part of a larger Office of the Dead (Officium defunctorum), as Victoria has supplemented the basic Requiem with a lesson from the service of Matins (Taedet animam meam), a funeral motet (Versa est in luctum), and the Responsory from the burial service (Libera me).

Before the Tridentine reforms standardised the propers of the Requiem Mass, some composers used alternative texts for some movements, e.g. Orlando di Lasso sets the Gradual text Si ambulem in medio umbrae mortis (Though I walk in the middle of the shadow of death).

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