The German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) started working on his German Requiem before reaching the age of 30, and by the time he was 33 he had completed it in its essentials - a work whose character would lead one to suppose it to have been a product of ripe maturity. Brahms added a particularly tender movement which was a direct outcome of his mother's death: Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra.
