Messa per li defonti for 8 voices a cappella.

Maurizio Cazzati (c. 1620 – 1677) wrote a “Messe e salmi per li defonti”, in 1663, as his opus 31. It contains the (already mentioned) Messa concerta a 5 (Requiem Mass) and the following psalms for the dead:
- Invitatorio a 5 – Regem cui omnia vivunt
- Primo Salmo a 5 – Verba mea auribus percipe Domine
- Secundo Salmo a 3 voci – Domine, ne in furore
- Terzo Salmo a 5 – Domine Deus meus, in te speravi
- Prima Letione a voce sola – Parce mihi Domine
- Primo Responsorio a 5 – Credo quod Redemptor
- Seconda Letione a 2 voci – Taedet animam meam
- Secondo Responsorio a 5 – Qui Lazarum resuscitasti
- Terza Letione a basso solo accompagnata da 5 istromenti se piace – Manus tuae
- Terzo Responsorio a 5 – Domine, quando veneris

This Messa concerta a 5 is part of Messa e salmi per li defonti.

This requiem contains:
- Introitus - Requiem aeternam
- Kyrie
- Sequentia - Dies irae
- Offertorio - Domine Jesu Christe
- Sanctus - Benedictus
- Motetto per la elevatione a 3 voci
- Agnus Dei-Lux aeterna
- Libera me

About de Adda recording: "Excellent CD in everything : first part for motets and instrumental works, with top singers and instrumentists and then a deep requiem, moving in a fine interpretation."

Later in the 17th century numerous requiem settings, many in concertato style, were produced by composers including G.B. Bassani, G.A. Bernabei, Antonio Bertali (eight settings), Biber, Giovanni Cavaccio, Cavalli, Cazzati, Joan Cererols, G.P. Colonna, P.A. Fiocco (three settings), Santino Girelli, J.K. Heller, J.C. Kerll (two settings), A.V. Michna, Marcin Mielczewski, Alessandro Scarlatti, Johann Stadlmayer, Christoph Straus (two settings) and Viadana.