At his memorial service on 22 June 1825 his own Requiem in C minor — composed in 1804 – was performed for the first time.

In 1549, there had been provision for a Requiem ( not so called ) and prayers of commendation and committal, the first addressed to the deceased.

James Hadley Chase wrote a few novels with private eyes as the main hero, including Blonde's Requiem ( 1945 ), Lay Her Among the Lilies ( 1950 ), and Figure It Out for Yourself ( 1950 ).

" The 1940 celebrations also included a concert at the Tokyo Kabukiza for which new works were commissioned from composers in France, Hungary, England ( Benjamin Britten, Sinfonia da Requiem, ultimately rejected ), and Germany ( Richard Strauss, Japanische Festmusik ).

The first full-length feature produced under the BFI's new scheme was Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley ( 1975 ), while others included Moon Over the Alley ( 1975 ), Requiem for a Village ( 1975 ), the openly avant-garde Central Bazaar ( 1973 ), Pressure ( 1975 ) and A Private Enterprise ( 1974 ) -- the last two being, respectively, the first British Black and Asian features.

Schmidt experienced a spiritual and physical breakdown after this, but achieved an artistic revival and resolution in his Fourth Symphony of 1933 ( which he inscribed as " Requiem for my Daughter ") and, especially, in his oratorio The Book With Seven Seals.

Immediately after Rossini's death, Giuseppe Verdi proposed to collaborate with twelve other Italian composers on a Requiem for Rossini, to be performed on the first anniversary of Rossini's death, conducted by Angelo Mariani.

Verdi re-used the " Libera me, Domine " he had written for the Rossini Requiem in his 1872 Requiem for Manzoni.

In 1989 the conductor Helmuth Rilling recorded the original Requiem for Rossini in its world premiere.

* Symphony No. 1, Versuch eines Requiem for alto and orchestra ( 1950 ) – revised version of Symphonisches Fragment ( on texts by Walt Whitman )

She is a vampiric Prince in Mexico according to setting information given for the popular role-playing game Vampire: the Requiem, as well as having an entire bloodline of vampires named after her and supposedly descended from her.

Works such as the Requiem of Hector Berlioz would have been impossible to perform just a few decades earlier, with its demanding writing for twenty woodwinds, as well as four gigantic brass ensembles each including around four trumpets, four trombones, and two tubas.

Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is also an important example of the repertoire for more than one conductor.

The Beatles with Lacan: Rock ‘ n ’ Roll as Requiem for the Modern Age.

Sfondrati was a close follower of Carlo Cardinal Borromeo, and when cardinal he celebrated the Requiem Mass for Borromeo on 7 November 1584.

He continues to write Sláine, Bill Savage, Black Siddha and ABC Warriors for 2000 AD, and also the Franco-Belgian comic Requiem Vampire Knight, with art by Olivier Ledroit and its spin-off Claudia Chevalier Vampire, with art by Franck Tacito.

* Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream ( 2000 )

The less well-known Requiem for a Gringo shows many traces from another well-known Japanese film, Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri.

The film Requiem for a Dream concludes with " Act III: Winter ," in which the movie reaches its chilling climax.

By the late fifties, he regularly appeared on television: as Sean Connery's trainer in boxing drama Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1957 ), with Charlie Drake in the sitcom Drake's Progress ( BBC, 1957 ) and a title role in Three ' Tough ' Guys ( ITV, 1957 ), in which he played a bungling criminal.

* In the Star Trek episode " Requiem for Methuselah ," the android's name is Rayna Kapec ( an anagram of Capek ).

* The specific information on the Messa da Requiem in G minor was taken from the liner notes, written by Keith Anderson, for the 2010 Naxos recording of the piece.

: Requiem for a Divided Nation ( 1992 ), a collection of essays about nationalism and anti-semitism, generated considerable controversy.

Requiem for a Divided Country ( 1992 )

Five years later, Verdi reworked his " Libera Me " section of the Rossini Requiem and made it a part of his Requiem Mass, honoring the famous novelist and poet Alessandro Manzoni, who had died in 1873.

It was the premiere of A German Requiem, his largest choral work, in Bremen, in 1868, that confirmed Brahms's European reputation and led many to accept that he had conquered Beethoven and the symphony.

After the defeat of the Third Reich in World War II, the real victims of the regime had become clear, and the cantata's title was changed to " Symphonic Fragment: Attempt at a Requiem " to honor the millions killed in the Holocaust.

In a later TOS episode " Requiem for Methuselah ", Spock specifically requests a Terran brandy after Dr. McCoy, while serving himself and Captain Kirk, observes that he had no expectation that Spock would be joining them in a drink for fear that the alcohol would affect his logic faculties.

The following night Britten's War Requiem had its premiere.

This attitude persisted long after Delius's death, as the Requiem did not receive another performance in the UK until 1965, and by 1980 had still had only seven performances world-wide.

Chopin had requested that Mozart's Requiem be sung.

The Requiem had major parts for female voices, but the Church of the Madeleine had never permitted female singers in its choir.

Morgan's Requiem Mass in St. Therese's Church in his native Mount Merrion, South Dublin, was attended by, among others, Her Excellency Professor Mary McAleese, the President of Ireland, and her predecessor, Mary Robinson, and by the leaders of Ireland's church and state, many of whom had been the victims of Morgan's humour in Scrap Saturday.

By 1954, the New Theatre, Cardiff had become the company's base and it staged a short season between 1 – 13 November, with performances of Les vêpres siciliennes, Rigoletto, Nabucco, Verdi's Requiem, The Bartered Bride, Faust, Die Fledermaus and the premiere performance of Menna by Welsh composer Arwel Hughes.

Nowak worked on a new edition of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's famously uncompleted Requiem, and was able through detailed scrutiny to distinguish Mozart's own handwriting from that of Süßmayr and Eybler to an extent no one had been able to do before.

The second-season episode " Requiem for a Son " introduced the character of Barnaby Jones ( Buddy Ebsen ), an aging veteran private investigator who had retired and turned over his agency to his son, Hal.

However, Wayans had a dramatic role in Darren Aronofsky's critically acclaimed Requiem for a Dream, which saw his departure from the usual comedies.

He has also had memorable roles in numerous cult favorites, including John Carpenter's films The Thing ( as Childs ) and They Live ( as Armitage ), the Riddick films Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick ( as the Imam ), the General in Armageddon, King in Oliver Stone's Platoon, and Big Tim in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream.

Poncelet to leave a Requiem Mass, because he was wearing his SS uniform, which Church authorities had strictly forbidden ( due to their perception of the pagan nature of the SS ).

Harper has also had an extensive concert career, including singing in the premiere of Britten's War Requiem in 1962, famously substituting for Galina Vishnevskaya on 10 days ' notice.

" Requiem " opens with the first accordes of Joaquín Rodrigo's " Concierto de Aranjuez ", which had been a number 3 hit just two months before in the UK for Geoff Love's orchestra, billed as ' Manuel & the Music of the Mountains '.

Before the College of Cardinals could offer official customary invitations to the various heads of state and government, over 200 foreign officials had expressed their desire to attend the Mass of Requiem.