We've talked about Mozart before and we're going to go on now to talk about Mozart's Requiem.

之前我们已经谈论过莫扎特了,我们现在还要继续,说说莫扎特的《安魂曲》

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Unlike the regular mass, the Requiem mass has a very special movement associated with it.

不像那些通常的弥撒曲,安魂弥撒曲,有个很特别的乐章

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We'll run about thirty seconds over as we listen to the "Lacrimosa" Out of the "Dies irae" Out of the Requiem Mass of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart written in Vienna 1791.

我们要多听三十秒,《末日经》里的《落泪之日》,沃尔夫冈·阿玛迪乌斯·莫扎特的《安魂弥撒曲》,写于1791年维也纳

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The Requiem mass is a particular kind of mass.

安魂弥撒曲是弥撒曲中特殊的一种

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It's a Requiem mass. What's a mass?

这是一个安魂弥撒曲,什么是弥撒曲

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In the Requiem.

在《安魂曲》中

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Actually, his death came rather suddenly and he was working on a requiem that someone had commissioned from him under rather mysterious circumstances and he began to think of it as his own requiem, and indeed, he didn't actually finish it.

其实,他的死来的比较突然,那时他正在谱写,由一个神秘人物委托的《安魂曲》,而且他开始把它当成了自己的安魂曲,而事实是,他其实并没有完成这部作品

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