The "Requiem in c" by Johann Michael Haydn had a great influence on W. A. Mozart's Requiem setting. J. M. Haydn composed his work in just two weeks in December 1771 on the occasion of the death of his first employer in Salzburg, Prince Archbishop Sigismund Count Schrattenbach, a very popular prince and great patron of the arts. However, the work was also written under the impression of personal grief: Haydn's only child, Aloisia Josepha, died in January 1771 before reaching the age of one. Parts of the Schrattenbach Requiem were performed together with the completed movements of his second unfinished Requiem composition at Johann Michael Haydn's own requiem mass. Even at the funeral service for his brother Joseph Haydn in Vienna, the younger brother's Missa pro defunctis was used.
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