One of these musical compositions opens with a unison F- G-flat - E-F motif in the strings. Another ends with a fermata chord to be held "tres long" and contains directions for the choir to perform all solos; that work was written by Maurice Durufle. Luigi Cherubini composed a notable one in C minor dedicated to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, which Beethoven remarked should be a model for all future versions. Dvorak's Opus 89 is another example 
One of these musical compositions opens with a unison F- G-flat - E-F motif in the strings. Another ends with a fermata chord to be held "tres long" and contains directions for the choir to perform all solos; that work was written by Maurice Durufle. Luigi Cherubini composed a notable one in C minor dedicated to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, which Beethoven remarked should be a model for all future versions. Dvorak's Opus 89 is another example in B-flat minor, while the first polyphonic setting is attributed to Johannes Ockeghem. Robert Schumann composed one of these "for Mignon" based on the work of Goethe, while a more famous one in fourteen movements was commissioned by Franz von Walsegg and completed by Franz Sussmayr. FTP, name this type of composition from which the "Dies Irae" was omitted by Fauré, another example of which is the "German" one by Brahms.
One of these musical compositions opens with a unison F- G-flat - E-F motif in the strings.
{requiem} masses