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A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead (Latin: Missa pro defunctis), is Mass celebrated for the repose of the soul or souls of a deceased person, using a particular formula of the Roman Missal. It is frequently celebrated in the context of a funeral. Musical settings of the propers of the Requiem Mass are also called Requiems.

The liturgy begins with the words "Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine" – "Grant them eternal rest, O Lord."
This is as the Kyrie in the Ordinary of the Mass, not from the Latin but from Greek: Kyrie eleison; Christe eleison; Kyrie eleison Lord have mercy; Christ have mercy; Lord have mercy.

The Requiem Mass in D minor (K. 626) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1791 and left unfinished at the composer's death.