-Desperately- needing lyrics / translation to Mozart- Requiem Mass

[UberDave]

Desperately needing lyrics / translation to Mozart- Requiem Mass (not C minor)

I cannot find it anywhere, and i'm dying to know what the translation is. Could anyone help me out?



btw... old email address shut down ...forgot anandtech.com's password.... became a newbie again. Used to be Insdav3

 

[kranky]

Is this it?

 

[UberDave]

hmm let me check it out... those are all parts of a 'episode'....maybe I've got the whole thing.... im going to try and download all those... i'll let you know.


but what i'm talking about is ...if you've ever seen Amadeus (recent movie) it's the last song he is working on when he is dying in bed.
-Dave

 

[bizmark]

Would PM this, but no PM for Dave.

AFAIK all Requiem Masses use pretty much the same text. It is an ancient, sacred text. It mostly follows the basic Mass. So the words to (for example) Mozart's, Verdi's, and Dvorak's are the same. I found good info and complete lyrics here.

I highly recommend that you buy and listen to the whole thing on CD! Getting pieces of it on MP3 and assembling it won't sound good unless you can get it all from the same recording. It's one of the best pieces of music ever written, don't short yourself on this!

FYI Mozart never competed it. The whole situation in the movie is only partly true. There are actually several extant versions of Mozart's Requiem, which were finished by his students. The most commonly accepted is by Sussmayer.

Lots of info over Mozart and the history of the Requiem Mass K.626 here