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The motif Dies Iraeis one of the most recognisable themes in music. Marked by its significant meaning, the musical quotation plays a symbolic role in a number of works of music. It became extremely popular with composers of the Romantic era (Berlioz, Liszt, Saint-Saëns) and later times (Honegger, Crumb). Some composers kept returning to it, sometimes nearly obsessively, in many of their works (Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff). The sequence enjoys a major position in their music, as if it carried the load o...