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Schütz's Musikalische Exequien, catalogued as SWV 279-281, consists of three linked pieces of German funeral music from the early Baroque period. Written for the funeral of Heinrich Posthumus Reuss, it sets biblical and hymn texts rather than following the Latin Catholic Requiem Mass. The sequence m...

German biblical passages replace the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead in Johannes Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45. This large-scale Romantic work for chorus, orchestra, and soloists draws on the Lutheran Bible and places consolation for the living at the center of its treatment of mortalit...

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's Requiem in F minor is a choral and orchestral mass composed by the prominent Bohemian-Austrian Baroque musician. Serving as Kapellmeister at the Salzburg Cathedral, Biber wrote the piece in the late 17th century to accommodate the musical resources of the archbishopric's...

Max Reger's Requiem, Op. 144b, is a German late-Romantic choral work completed in 1916, near the end of the composer's life. It belongs to the concert-requiem tradition and uses choral and orchestral forces to address grief, death, and remembrance. The piece forms part of Reger's final large vocal w...

Franz Schubert's German Requiem, D. 621, is an unfinished sacred choral work composed in German rather than using the standard Latin Requiem text. Schubert wrote it in 1818, during the early part of his mature compositional career. The work reflects the tradition of German-language Protestant funera...

Friedrich Kiel's Requiem, Op. 20, is a Latin choral requiem by the German composer Friedrich Kiel, who lived from 1821 to 1885. The work belongs to the nineteenth-century Romantic repertory and reflects Kiel's training as a composer and teacher of counterpoint. Its musical identity is associated wit...