Shortly before the end of the opera "The Magic Flute, Mozart get at home visit from a stranger dressed all in black, who refused to give his name, charged with the composition of a Requiem (Mass for the dead), offering a preview for further work an extra sum of money to finish the work if given promptly. Mozart, overwhelmed by debt accepted the assignment, but is convinced that the mysterious character is a messenger of Fate ... "I can not detach the image of the unknown, I see him everywhere and asked me eager to do the work."
Dark and brooding, obsessed with the idea of \u200b\u200bdeath from his father, weakened by fatigue and illness, end up believing that Mozart's Requiem is composing for his own funeral: "I know my end is near. Someone has poisoned me and I can not get this idea from the head"
On 4 December 1791, at 35 years old, steeped in misery and her unfinished Requiem, Mozart no longer exists. With a raging storm to the cemetery accompanied only by his faithful dog, is buried in a mass grave.
The Requiem has 15 movements and 8 parts, the "Lacrimosa" the eighth movement. It is believed that was the last I wrote, after being completed by his pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr .
The Lacrimosa is a piece of soft, sweet, melancholic and feminine. It is a cry for the Eternal Rest (Perhaps Mozart asking for his, knowing that he was at death's door?: "Forgive as God. / Merciful Jesus, Lord, / give the rest / Amen.")
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem in D Minor (KV 626), Eighth Movement, "Lacrimosa"
Schedules and additional arrangements: Marcelo Perez Santiago
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