Requiem

The Requiem mass (Totenmesse, Messe des Mortis, Messe des morts, or Missa pro Defunctis ), a mass honoring the dead, takes it's name after the beginning of the Latin of the Introit, Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine (Grant them eternal rest, O Lord).

It differs from the normal Mass in that it not only includes certain items of the ordinary mass, but also contains the Introit and Gradual from the Proper. A tract, followed by the sequence Dies irae, is substituted for the Alleluia and often is a major dramatic element in the composition. Sometimes responses and other text are added from the burial service, which follows the mass.

Settings by composers

Rafael Sales Arantes Matteo Asola Hector Berlioz Claudio Casciolini (only Introitus available) Chant Gregorian Chant arr. by Abel Di Marco Ambrosian chant Luigi Cherubini Peter Cornelius Carl Ludwig Drobisch Requiem No. 1 in D minor Requiem No. 2 in D minor Requiem No. 3 in Eb Major Caspar Ett Gabriel Fauré Robert Führer Requiem 'im feierlichen Styl' op. 181 Requiem in C Requiem in F Einstimmige Requiem, Op. 290

José Mauricio Nunes Garcia (only Kyrie available) Joseph Gruber Manfred Hößl Frans J. Krafft Duarte Lobo Claudio Macchi Joseph Michel Requiem No. 1 Requiem No. 2 Cristobal de Morales Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Johannes Ockeghem Lorenzo Perosi (only Introitus available) Ramiro Real Ignaz Reimann Joseph G. Stephens Juan Vasquez Tomás Luis de Victoria Missa Pro defunctis a 4

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Original texts and translations

Different composers have set different parts of the Latin Requiem Mass. Some of the most common movements are as follows:

• Requiem aeternam (Introit)
• Kyrie eleison
• Dies irae
• Domine Jesu (Offertorium)
• Sanctus
• Pie Jesu Domine
• Agnus Dei
• Lux aeterna (Communion)
• Libera me (Exsequiae)
• In paradisum (Valedictio)