Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Requiem Op. 33b is a short a cappella choral piece by Icelandic composer Jón Leifs (1899–1968) dedicated to the memory of his daughter who drowned in a swimming accident shortly before her 18th birthday. The piece has only the name in common with the traditional Latin Mass for the dead. It is composed to a text which is a collage of Icelandic folk poetry and selections from a poem by Jónas Hallgrímsson.