"Lacrimosa" is Latin for "weeping" or "tearful." In music, it refers to a specific section of the Dies Irae sequence in the Catholic Requiem Mass. Mozart's version, from his Requiem in D minor (K. 626), is the most famous setting. It's the last section Mozart worked on before his death in December 1791; the rest of the Requiem was completed by his student Franz Xaver Sussmayr. There's a bitter symmetry to it: the movement about weeping was the last thing Mozart ever composed. His pen stopped in the middle of the Lacrimosa, eight bars in.
"Lacrimosa" is Latin for "weeping" or "tearful." In music, it refers to a specific section of the Dies Irae sequence in the Catholic Requiem Mass. Mozart's version, from his Requiem in D minor (K. 626), is the most famous setting. It's the last section Mozart worked on before his death in December 1791; the rest of the Requiem was completed by his student Franz Xaver Sussmayr. There's a bitter symmetry to it: the movement about weeping was the last thing Mozart ever composed. His pen stopped in the middle of the Lacrimosa, eight bars in.