What is truly fascinating about this is that it wasn't even finished by Mozart himself, as stated in the various comments below. Based on my understanding of the story, it appears that his student, using his teacher's tips and apparently figured bass, was able to figure out the rest of the piece and finish it. The result is quite stunning.
kander63 In my music class our teacher said that this piece was almost the perfect (and he doesn't use that word a lot) example of how rests can amplify sound. Takes a genius like Mozart to compose this.
Bruckner quotes the "qua resurget ex favila" part of it in the Finale of his 4th Symphony at letter X (measure 517) It's identical, except transposed down by a whole step. Certainly no coincidence...
+MsJigglypuff100 to be precise, "lacrimosa" means "that move you to tears". "Tears" is "lacrime". Source: i m italian ;). Anyway, the actuall translation fits even better
+MarkTools nope my friend :) "lacrimosa" means tearful, (therefore "lacrimosa dies" means "tearful day"), "lacrima" (not lacrime) means "tear". Believe me, I'm latin (and Asian too ;D)
+Guilherme Eddino Lacrimosa is a part of Dies Irae, a part of a Requiem (Funeral) Mass in the Roman Catholic Church, Latin rite. Mournfully be that day (Lacrimosa dies illa) On which from ashes shall arise (Qua resurget ex favilla) The guilty man to be judged; (Judicandus homo reus) O God, have mercy on him. (Huic ergo parce, Deus) Gentle Lord Jesus, (Pie Jesu Domine) Grant them eternal rest. Amen. (Dona eis requiem. Amen) Lacrimosa means literally full of tears (tearful, lachrymose). +MarkTools (cazzo dai se sei italiano dovresti saperlo come funziona la particella -oso. Formoso significa pieno di forme, armonioso significa pieno di armonia, lacrimoso pieno di lacrime). Porsi ver' lui le guance lagrimose - Extended unto him my tearful cheeks(Dante Alighieri - Divina Commedia - Purgatorio - Canto I)
+Lieven Pluym This motive makes everything. This is basically like when you make a small melody and ask a house producer to make a 3 minute track out of it. He just drags it along, but the core essential is yours. But in classic these other guys who finished it did a pretty decent job, I admit ;)
The final page that Mozart ever wrote was from this part of his Requiem... Lacrimosa, the way of tears. You are hearing the last thing ever penned by Mozart.
I apologize if I'm wrong then... but in the Mozarthaus in Vienna, a page of the Lacrimosa is given a place of honor in the museum. It has been several years since I was there but I would swear the inscription below it said it was the last thing he ever wrote in his own hand.
Mournful that day. When from the ashes shall rise a guilty man to be judged. Lord, have mercy on him. Gentle Lord Jesus, grant them eternal rest. Amen.
I did this in 7th-grade choir in 2007 and it has been my favorite piece since then. We had the choir director and judges in tears. It was chilling and beautiful!
The emotion and subtle undertones of heartbreak are truly an expression that has transcended reality. Even to this day, it evokes the pain and frustration Mozart felt, knowing he was going to die. Amazing.
Musica talmente bella da essere "indicibile", ossia intraducibile con la lingua. Ci resta solo la contemplazione tutta interiore che ci fa sentire la voce di Dio. Più ascolto questo brano tratto dal Requiem di Mozart e più resto senza parole di fronte a simile bellezza familiare al logos.
Estaremos viajando entre galáxias daqui a um 100 anos,e estaremos ouvindo esses gênios maravilhosos que compunham a luz de velas e tiveram uma vida muito difícil.
I didn't know that this piece was in 12/8 time. I know that it is in D minor. It ends with a Picardy Third and the altos have the crucial F# . A triumphant ending which leaves me in tears - light after darkness.
"Best" has no meaning, since there is nothing which has an asbolute meaning. But if you say that this music is the best for you, I believe you without any questioning.
TheWaterman He actually didn’t compose it. The piece was only played in one specific church that I can’t think of the name of right now. However he listened to it, went home, and re-wrote it entirely from memory. Just goes to show the amazingly insane talent he had
So many people just don’t really hear this music. The depth of the music of Wolfgang was extraordinary. “Agnes Dei” is good too. But I still absolutely love “Ah Tutti Contenti” from “ The Marriage of Figaro”. Also “Kyrie Eleison”, “Clarinet Concerto in A Major K 622” Adagio”, “Concerto for Flute and Harp in C Major K 299 Adante”, There’s so many, I also like Grier’s “Peer Gynt Suite” “Good Morning & Solviegs Song” and Clair De Lune by Claude Debussy. And one thing that aggravates me is that most people cut off the introduction for Johannes Strauss’ “The Blue Danube” . There are many Composers whose music was phenomenal, but Mozart will always be my favorite. I don’t know of any composer who wrote as much and as many variations and done it all in the short time that he lived. IMO the greatest composer that ever lived.
To actually go to a traditional Latin Requiem Mass … that is really how to hear this as it is a liturgical work . The meaning truly comes when their is a catafalque and either a loved one there or the empty tomb covered as it becomes a memorial Mass offered fir the person. Truly the only way to be taken to Heaven
Ah, Lacrimosa, Gives me a nostalgia and a weird vibe, of Statues and graves! roses and rain, And maybe because its the last peice Wolfgang wrote, wasent finished either...This music is so...Hm..Love and death ah i dont know
"The calendar loses a precious component, the remaining months gather to mourn, the mourners play a melody, while the eleventh moon quietly rises. The chrysanthemum withers and falls, to lie on the ground beside bloody Scarlet Eyes. But you will remain supreme. Even after losing half your limbs. Enjoy the interlude. Search out new allies. East is the direction to go. There you will find one who awaits you" *Uvô, can you hear us ? We made a requiem for you.*
Personally, I find very hard to believe that Mozart did only write the first 8 bars. Even with another composers hand writing, we need not to assume that the following composition (which is BRILLIANT) is for other person that not from Mozart. Lacrymosa is, as a whole, a SUPERB piece of composition, as I seem to find very unlikely to see a student writing the "unfinished" part. Not having Mozart (at least) telling how to complete it, is something I simply hard to believe. For instance, you can see "Sanctus" is not Mozart. You can even see that "Agnus Dei" may not be his, too, but this SUBLIME composition not his in totality...? I´m not convinced of that.
He may have only written the first eight, but may also have hatched and communicated the plan for the entire piece. The shifting mood from oppressive to calm to oppressive to resolution in the amen and the "plodding" sensation of the piece may have been Mozart's ideas even if he didn't pick the notes. The art is more in the design than clever chord choices anyway.
i think that the legends around doesn't matter , it's an awesome piece is popular knowledge that JS Bach owns Assmadeus but still a great piece BACHNAZI 4 LIFE
There's rumors that Mozart left scraps of paper to Franz-Xaver Süsmayr which contained more of his original composition than we know today, but it is not known to what extent these papers assisted him.
I always tear up. from flutetunes: The Requiem Mass in D minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1791 and left unfinished at the composer's death. The eccentric count Franz von Walsegg had commissioned the work from Mozart anonymously through intermediaries. The count, an amateur chamber musician who routinely commissioned works by composers and passed them off as his own, wanted a Requiem Mass (a Mass for the Dead) he could claim he composed to memorialize the recent passing of his wife. Mozart received only half of the payment in advance, so upon his death his widow Constanze was keen to have the work completed secretly by someone else, submit it to the Count as having been completed by Mozart and collect the final payment. The task was ultimately given to Franz Xaver Süssmayr, who completed Mozart's fragments and added his own orchestration and several new movements. In particular, Süssmayr finished the “Lacrymosa” (an incorrect variant of the Latin , ‛tearful’), of which only the first 8 bars were composed by Mozart.
Whatever the limitation of the completion by Mozart's students is, they had a supreme advantage none of us have: they were there. Besides, people far more clever than I have sussed out more music that's by Mozart in the completion. So I do believe he had spoken about what he wanted to do. Not necessarily giving license to his students to finish the music, but talking with them about his intentions.
Yes, that is true. It was finished by other people but I read that Mozart actually left notes and instructions for it. The final result is just beyond words.
How does one compare one "lacrimosa" to another? All are familiar with this one.It's been played during television ads (Verizon, for one)... However, I am wondering what went on in the mind of Berlioz when he composed HIS lacrimosa in his requiem.... (btw.... I LOVE IT!).... also the stunning version in the Verdi Requiem. Too many others to list. In the end, one cannot "compare." My thanks to davidpetercantus for this! C'est exquis et c'est un rappel de souvenirs personnels spéciales. J'adore. Vielen Dank!
''The calendar loses a precious component'' ''The remaining months gather to moun'' ''The Mouners play a melody'' ''while the eleventh moon quietly rises'' ''The chrysanthemum withers and falls'' ''To lie on the ground beside bloody scarlet eyes'' ''But you will remain supreme'' ''Even after losing half of your limbs'' ''Enjoy the interlude'' ''Search out for new allies'' ''East is the direction to go'' ''You will find one who awaits you'' -Uvo-san -can you hear us -We are playing a requiem for you
For those who are trying to play along on the piano and its sounding weird: Thats because this record is half tone below in A=448Hz Tempering You're welcome
Indeed! Mozart's manuscript ends not far into the eighth line. He died before completing it. Legend has it that he stopped because the music terrified him, and I wouldn't put it past him. He became rather paranoid once bedridden.
For my anime lovers out there, in HunterxHunter when the Phantom Troupe is destroying the city at the end of Episode 51, this is the piece that’s playing. Very awesome scene and very awesome music 👍🏼
One day when I was trying my usual best to heal/understand folk on a Psychiatry ward as a staff member; one of them, MHA sectioned, commented - "I vibrate to the sounds of the universe like a tuning fork" ... Death bed composition by M? Uhm. Exists mybe only two sets of moments when we are so utterly human/universal --- those belonging to conception & death?
Kiedy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart komponował „Lacrimosa” był już bardzo chory. Kompozytor nie zdołał ukończyć dzieła, choć zaprzątało go do ostatnich chwil życia jeszcze 4 grudnia 1791r. pracował nad wątkami Lacrimosa dies illa. Mozart prowadził wyścig z czasem, uważając, że pisze requiem na własną śmierć. Z takim przekonaniem zmarł. Rękopis mozartowski, ostatnie nuty postawione jego ręką, przypadają na 8 takt partii wokalnych Lacrimosa. Partie wokalne i instrumentalne Lacrimosa i Amen według szkiców wykończył Süssmayr. Mozart ukończył także partie wokalne Domine Jesu i Hostias, zaś niepełna instrumentacja wykończona została przez Süssmayra. On też samodzielnie skomponował Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei oraz Lux aeterna (na wzór Introitus i Kyrie Mozarta).
Bad memories. I had to do this song as a soprano one, and the next year, my voice part was changed to a bass 2. Then a bass 1. Then a tenor 2. Then back down.
Mozart was only able to set in writing the 4 vocal parts & figur’d Bass (Bezifferung) up to the end of bar 8 (See Codex 17561a-with an introduction in M.’s handwriting of 2 violini e violate) but bars 9-22 were no doubt bas’d on one of the many ‘skizze’ (sketches) that the Widow handed to Frank Suessmayr (Mozart’s copyist) for ‘resemplage’ (= Completion) that she had discover’d when cleaning out his stand-up writing table in early January 1792; unfortunately Suessmayr destroy’d The skizze but one survived (The Berlin Sketch dating from late Sept/early Oct 1791; re-discovered in 1960) shewing 16-bars (3/8) in d-minor for 4 vocal parts of an Amen Fugue to close out the Dies Irae Trope (aka the Sequentia) which Suessmayr replac’d with a ‘stupid plagal cadence’ in D-major - contrary to Mozart’s wishes; in his letter to Breitkopf und Haertel (9 Feb 1800) he claim’d that Mozart himself perform’d on his klavier got him (several times) those portions of the score not yet committed to paper (end of the Lacrymosa, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei & Osannas) so we can sometimes hear Mozart’s authentic voice in the Canto & Bass lines of the Completion (which involv’d Jacob Freistaetler for the wind parts of the Kyrie & Joseph Eybler for the Dies Irae Trope (Sequentia) as far as bar 10 of the Lacrymosa; Abbe Maximilian Stadler for the Domine Jesu & Qual Olim / Hostias etc.)
I could never write anything better, but something about the last chord always bugged me. I feel Mozart would never end on such a basic note. It just doesn't feel like it fits with the rest of the piece. Anyone else feel this way?
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the only thing that really bothers me is that its not mozart who finished the requiem... on 0:51 it's not his work anymore... i really can't stand that its not HIM who wrote it as it's that awesome... yet, sussmayr based on Mozart's tips and writtings and on his project for the piece so i think we can assume that it's the same piece that Mozart would write if he lived long enough or he would have done it even better (must... not... cry... D: ) instead of giving the credit to summayr and eybler who finished the work, lets say that Mozart is the actual creator of this piece, including one of my favourite parts: Lacrimosa...
Because he died before this was finished. It's like if write half an essay and your friend writes the other half. You didn't write the essay. Although it would be easier to say the score was created by -artist- and contributing artists.
***** although it's Mozart that wrote the Amen Fugue, isn't it? ;) (even thought it's not in sussmayr's completion) also writing that comment under that username of yours... epic ;)
In essence, everything is still Mozart, because everything from 0:51 is still based on his music--some parts no doubt more faithful to his intention than others (at 2:08 we find music identical to his earlier on, save for the dynamics), but he's the clear, unmistakable guiding spirit behind every single note of it.
0:22 I see three treble clefs. The third part being the tenor part has the treble clef without the 8 marked on the bottom of the clef. The tenor part was supposed to have the treble clef octave basso in the score animation of the Lacrimosa movement.
elle est vraiment magnifique en plus j'aime Mozart depuis mon enfance 😘😘 et le fait qu'il est mort me casse le coeur même si qu'il est mort depuis bien longtemps ..... il reste mon pianiste préf
Mozart n'a jamais joué de piano. Mozart never played the piano. I think he saw one, in Vienna, but as it is a percussion instrument, it was not yet a useful instrument.
Impossível ouvir essa música e não lembrar das cenas finais do filme "Amadeus", onde o caixão com o corpo de Mozart é levado ao cemitério. Ao fim, como que simbolizando a ingratidão do homem para com o homem, o corpo de Mozart é jogado numa vala comum e sepultado como indigente...
Tutaj jest kolejność częsci Reqiem, ale czas wykonania części są wg Karajana. 2:05 I. Introitus 7:34 II. Kyrie III. Sequentia 10:16 1. Dies irae 12:09 2. Tuba mirum 16:01 3. Rex tremendae 18:22 4. Recordare 23:32 5. Confutatis 25:54 6. Lacrimosa IV. Offertorium 29:29 1. Domine Jesu 33:22 2. Hostias 38:00 V. Sanctus 39:50 VI. Benedictus 45:30 VII. Agnus Dei 49:13 VIII. Communio. Czyli, po piątej przerwie(25:52), jest ulubiona" LACRIMOSA."
