Gabriel Fauré composed his Requiem in D minor, Op. 48, between 1887 and 1890. The choral-orchestral setting of the shortened Catholic Mass for the Dead in Latin is the best-known of his large works. Its focus is on eternal rest and consolation. Fauré's reasons for composing the work are unclear, but do not appear to have had anything to do with the death of his parents in the mid-1880s. He composed the work in the late 1880s and revised it in the 1890s, finishing it in 1900.

Date of composition 1890 (1887-1900)
Premiered 1888, January 16th in Paris, France
First published 1900
Type Requiem
Tonality D Minor
Catalogue Op. 48
Approx. duration 35 minutes
Spoken language Latin
Instruments Orchestra
Chorus/Choir
Voice (Soprano)
Voice (Baritone)
In listings Famous Works
Autotranslations beta Gabriel Fauré: Requiem en ré mineur, Op. 48
Gabriel Fauré: Requiem in re minore, Op. 48
Gabriel Fauré: Requiem d-moll, Op. 48