Today’s theme is Art, and on these days we will be exploring various artists using various mediums. We will start with one of the masterpieces from the Classical Era. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requieum – Kryie.
Mozart was Roman Catholic and lived in Austria during the late 1700s. The Requieum is written in D minor and was unfinished at the time of his death (at age 35), it was finished the following year by Franz Xaver Sussmayr. It has been suspected that Mozart believed that he was writing the Requieum for his own funeral.
As such, it seems appropriate to the beginning of our Lenten journey, and our dying away from earthly things.
The lyrics in Latin are:
Kryie eleison,
Christe eleison,
Kyrie, eleison.
Or in English:
Lord, have mercy on me,
Christ, have mercy on me,
Lord, have mercy on me.