Requiem_in_C_minor_(Cherubini)
The Requiem in C minor for mixed chorus was written by Luigi Cherubini in 1816 and premiered 21 January 1817 at a commemoration service for Louis XVI of France on the twenty-fourth anniversary of his beheading during the French Revolution.[1]
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The work was greatly admired by Beethoven, Schumann, Berlioz and Brahms.[2] It was performed at the funeral of Beethoven in 1827.[3]