Lacrimosa

W. A. Mozart / F. X. Süssmayr

For alto sax and piano

Written in D minor, range C♯4 to A5

From Mozart’s Requiem, a mass for the dead. “Lacrimosa” means “full of tears”: on Judgement Day the dead rise from the ashes, and the choir begs God for mercy. Mozart died in 1791 after writing only its first eight bars; his student Süssmayr finished it.

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