Requiem

Messa da Requiem is a requiem mass by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, first performed in 1874. The work is a large-scale sacred choral and orchestral composition that blends Verdi's operatic dramatic gestures with dense choral textures and vivid orchestral colour, and it occupies a distinctive place in his output as one of the few major sacred works in which he applies his theatrical technique to liturgical form.