Mozart - Requiem Mass (Dies irae, Rex tremendae, and Lacrimosa) - English and Latin lyrics

Parts of the Requiem Mass (D minor.) Mozart’s ebullient Symphony No. 39, among the last to be composed. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final masterpiece was commissioned in mid 1791 by the Austrian count Franz Von Walsegg, as a tribute to the passing of his young wife Anna. This piece was unfinished at the time of Mozart’s death. At the behest of his wife, Constanze Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s understudy Franz Xaver Süssmayr completed the missing parts. Requiem Mass was first performed on January 2, 1793, in a private concert for the benefit of Mozart’s grieving wife. The artwork: The Pietà by Michelangelo. A renaissance sculpture carved in Carrara marble. This famous work of art depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion. It balances the Renaissance ideals of classical beauty with naturalism. The marks of the Crucifixion are limited to very small nail marks and an indication of the wound in Jesus’ side, and his face does not reveal signs of the Passion. Michelangelo