When I was in seminary back in the mid-1980s, I was informed by some of my seminary teachers that the old funeral (requiem) Masses were a very dark affair. Black vestments and somber prayers, all ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) wrote his Requiem Mass in d minor, K. 626, in Vienna in late 1791, but he hadn’t finished it when he died on Dec. 5. The work was completed by Mozart’s student Franz ...