Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Dies Irae Requiem d moll

The Requiem Mass in D minor (K. 626) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1791 and left unfinished at the composer's death on December 5. A completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg, who had anonymously commissioned the piece for a requiem Mass to commemorate the February 14 anniversary of his wife's death. «Dies Irae» (Day of Wrath) is a thirteenth century Latin hymn thought to be written by Thomas of Celano (1200 -- c. 1265).[1] It is a medieval Latin poem characterized by its accentual stress and its rhymed lines