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Faure was not drawn to compose a Requiem because of the death of a loved one even though his mother had died during the early stages of composition and his father had passed away two years before. Faure’s composition does not set his Requiem to the standard liturgical text instead adding a lyrical Pie Jesu and transcendent Paradisum and omitting the Dies Irae and Tuba Mirum - which for most …