Requiem

The Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known formally (in Latin) as the Missa pro defunctis or Missa defunctorum, is a liturgical service of the Roman Catholic Church and its Eastern Rite. It is sometimes observed by other denominations of Christianity in other forms such as the Church of England and Eastern Orthodoxy.

Requiem composers

Renaissance

• Giovanni Francesco Anerio
• Giammeteo Asola
• Giulio Belli
• Antoine Brumel
• Manuel Cardoso
• Joan Cererols
• Pierre Certon
• Clemens non Papa
• Guillaume Dufay (lost)
• Pedro de Escobar
• Antoine de Févin
• Francisco Guerrero
• Jacobus de Kerle
• Orlande de Lassus
• Jean Maillard
• Jacques Mauduit
• Manuel Mendes
• Cristóbal de Morales
• Johannes Ockeghem (the earliest to survive)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
• Costanzo Porta
• Johannes Prioris
• Jean Richafort
• Pierre de la Rue
• Claudin de Sermisy
• Jacobus Vaet
• Tomás Luis de Victoria

Baroque

• Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• Jean Gilles
• Claudio Monteverdi (lost)
• Jan Dismas Zelenka

Classical period

• Luigi Cherubini
• Florian Leopold Gassmann
• François-Joseph Gossec
• Michael Haydn
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Romantic era

• Hector Berlioz
• Anton Bruckner
• Carl Czerny
• Antonín Dvořák
• Gabriel Fauré
• Charles Gounod
• Franz Liszt
• Camille Saint-Saëns
• Robert Schumann
• Charles Villers Stanford
• Giuseppe Verdi
• See also: Messa per Rossini

Post-romantic

• Benjamin Britten
• Maurice Duruflé
• György Ligeti
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Frank Martin
• Krzysztof Penderecki
• Alfred Schnittke
• Robert Steadman
• Igor Stravinsky

German requiems

• Johannes Brahms
• Michael Praetorius
• Franz Schubert
• Heinrich Schütz

English requiems

• Herbert Howells
• John Rutter