"Lacrymosa" incorporates the "Lacrimosa" sequence from Mozart's Requiem (1791). Whitacre states that the first work he sang, Mozart's "Requiem", changed his life. The autograph of Mozart's "Requiem" was placed on display. He conducted premieres such as the full seven-movement version of Brahms's "A German Requiem" (1869). Berlioz called for 4 tam-tams in his Requiem of 1837. The poem is among those set in the "War Requiem" of Benjamin Britten. Black did guest vocals and appeared on the Dethklok soundtrack album "The Doomstar Requiem". Finally the "Libera me", the oldest music by Verdi in the "Requiem", interrupts. In 1967 he conducted the UEA Choir in a performance of his "War Requiem". One of the best-known works in which Britten set poetry was the "War Requiem" (1962). He once wrote that the Requiem "belonged to Schumann". "Forward Unto Dawn" drifts towards the Forerunner installation Requiem. A German Requiem, to Words of the Holy Scriptures, Op. Its opening theme "Requiem" was performed by Catherine Bott. The novel "Requiem for a Dream" by Hubert Selby Jr. was published in 1978.