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.