Wilhelm August Ferdinand [Wilhelm] Schulthes (09/09/1816 - 16/08/1879), a German composer, born in Hesse Cassel. Son of German army officer, Schulthes was raised as a Lutheran, but moved to Roman Catholicism around 1852. He directed the Brompton Oratory choir (1852-72), and taught music at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton (1868-79).
Requiem
| Period: | Romanticism |
| Composed in: | 1868 |
| Musical form: | hymn |
| Text/libretto: | Godfrey Thring |
Requiem, words: Godfrey Thring (1823 - 1903). This hymn was written at the request of Prebendary Hutton of Lincoln, and was first published in Thring’s Supplement (Lincoln, England: 1871).