Benjamin Britten wrote a nice one.
Benjamin Britten
They played Mozart's Requiem at the memorial service to honor the deceased.
One likely reason Johannes Brahms wrote A German Requiem was to mourn the death of his beloved mother. A German Requiem was written shortly after his mother's death in 1865.
Almost every composer of renown has one. Mozart and Leonard Bernstein each have famous ones.
I've been looking for this answer myself!
Ivan Ditmars composed the Brahms paraphrase heard in "Requiem for Methuselah" .
Johannes Brahms.
No, he did not. You can often hear that "Requiem for a dream" soundtrack is in fact "Summer Overture" written by Mozart but in fact there is no such Mozart's composition like "Summer Overture." Soundtrack for "Requiem for a dream" was composed by Clint Mansell. And no, it also is NOT remix of any Richard Wagner piece. "Requiem for a dream theme," "Lux aeterna," "Summer overture" or whatever you call it was composed in the late 90's by CLINT MANSELL.
The last piece of mucic Mozart wrote before he died was Requiem Mass in D minor.
The original purpose is to have it sung in memory of the dead. Sometimes, though, it is sung just because people like the music. By the way, there are many different musical settings for the requiem mass. The Gregorian chant requiem has been used by the Catholic church for centuries. Composers such as Mozart and Verdi wrote later settings.
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