Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) - "Requiem in D minor" K.626

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Musicologie presents Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart trough the listening of one "Requiem " to celebrate his birthday on January 27, 1756...

Requiem in D minor K.626 

1. Recordare: 

Recordare, Jesu pie,

Quod sum causa tuae viae,

Ne me perdas illa die,

Quaerens me, sedisti lassus,

Redemisti Crucem passus,

Tantus labor non sit cassus,

Juste judex ultionis

Donum fac remissionis

Ante diem rationis.

Ingemisco tamquam reus

Culpa rubet vultus meus

Supplicanti parce, Deus.

Qui Mariam absolvisti,

Et latronem exaudisti

Mihi quoque spem dedisti

Preces meae non sunt dignae.

Sed tu bonus fac benigne,

Ne perenni cremer igne

Inter oves locum praesta,

Et ab haedis me sequestrà,

Statuens in parte dextra. 

2. Confutatis:

Confutatis maledictis

Flammis acribus addictis

Voca me cum benedictis

Oro supplex et acclinis

Oro, suplicante e prostrado

Cor contritum quasi cinis

Gere curam mei finis.

3. Lacrimosa:

Lacrimosa dies illa

Qua resurget ex favilla

Judicandus homo reus.

Huic ergo parce, Deus

Pie Jesu Domine,

Dona eis requiem.

Amen.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born on January 27, 1756 and died December 5, 1791, baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. 

Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. 

He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death. 

The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound; Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years...

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