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  • This is beautiful. I love the soloists voice. Who is she?

  • He completed this one

    he didn't complete the requiem in d-minor

  • @jbell0243 Nope. He didn't complete either.

  • ...assuming that the presiding priest is patient enough to sit through 26 minutes of the Gloria, when it usually takes about 2 to 3 minutes to sing at most Masses today.

  • A comment on the ClassicalMusicGuide's comments: The reader unfamilar with the background on this piece should note that Mozart did not finish this work. It is missing half the Credo, the Great Amen, the Agnus Dei, and a few other parts. However, of what is completed, only the Credo would not be suitable as written because it is the only part of what has been written that is unfinished. The rest of what is completed could, in theory, be used even in today's liturgical form.

  • Musicgasm at 5:37

    

  • The one eleison around 4:17 made it all clear for me.

    So beautiful...

  • 3:49  <3

  • What the fuck is with fans of metal and rock having to point out that they like metal and/or rock but that they also appreciate classical music? Congratu-fucking-lations!

  • @TheMexihcatl I agree completely.

  • Too bad he didnt have a simple modern audio recorder or copier in his house....because there are many of his works that are still listed as 'missing' or 'lost'...bummer.

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  • I first heard this is Belleville Rendezvous, and tonight was the night that I found its true origin. AFTER ALL THIS TIME!

  • 4:40 - 5:11 HOLY F*CKING GLORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! J. S. Bach was good, but W. A. Mozart was GOD!!!!!!

    31 seconds in heaven, enjoy it ;) and Thanks

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!!!

  • @alejandrock74 Thou shall not compare Mozart to Bach :)

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  • Oh my lord... <3

  • Holy inspiration for writing the greatest Mass ever. Thank God for this masterpiece

  • patogiannis..i AGREE WITH YOU,MOZART WAS EITHER TOUCHED BY GOD OR THE DEVIL HIMSELF !!

  • Triplets of Belleville brought me here.

  • @PhysicalsimForever Sorry to interfere, but I have to argue with these fact like statements you made. I'm not saying that you are not right more or less, but not using the correct POV. Besides, is science all wrong and bad for giving us atomics, weapons, globalism, etc? I don't think so. So why would religion or beliefs alone be bad? Everything is what we make of them. Science and religion are just easy to be used as tools of power. I think this is as simple as that. ;)

  • 3:49 - 5:10 my favorite part of the whole sublime 6:56

  • Why I'm crying?

  • omg, that woman's voice! what is her name - does anyone know?

  • @orphansparrow2 Barbara Bonney. She sang a wonderful Sophie in der Rosenkavalier by Strauss and she sings Schubert's Lieder very well.

  • @PatateRoussoiste thank you so much! i really appreciate it. ~ i will go look up those others now. :)

  • the aria to Kyrie Eleison is superb 2:50

  • no Bach is. But Mozart's pretty cool

  • How far beyond words this prayer resides? How far beyond?

    Not only in Amadeus it may be heard ... Also a film by R.Bresson "A Man Escaped" is somehow pervaded by this music, by this prayer. Besides this music, the film contains just echoes for the world outside the prison walls. No sound additives, just pure life and this Kyrie. The prisoner knows just so little about his chances to escape, yet he tries, and finally he does. And whatever the allegory is, it speaks of inner passion of a Man.

  • babies that listen to Mozart grow up to be prophets

  • da rimanere a bocca aperta ,

  • plants that listen to Mozart grow faster.

  • magnifica

  • Absolute beauty.

  • the beginning of this piece is also the music of the trailer of amadeus

  • Un condamné a mort s'est échappé

  • Définitivement sur ma liste de ce qu'il faut que je chante dans ma vie

  • You have a little wrong in text. Credo in unum Deum, that means I believe in one god. We believe, it would Credemus in unum Deum.

  • Mozart was an anomaly. He was at least 500 years ahead of his time if you ask me. For living 35 years, he wrote more than anyone, and each one just as good as the last. This is proof, along with all his other 626 works.

  • @HerlockSholmes123 what about beethoven?

  • @Lenangreal both Beethoven and Mozart were absolutely geniuses. 

  • @Lenangreal Beethoven? Excellent, and a genius - of course. But he cannot be compared to Mozart, the genius of geniuses according to Albert Einstein, the "Musical Christ" as Tchaikovsky named him, a man who brought light in Music, and he let us all enter a different dimension (yet to be discovered entirely). Also Beethoven, who admired him and who was influenced by him, would have acknowledged this.

  • I still cannot find all the pieces of my brain that are scattered all over my room. I'm sure some of them flew through walls and windows and they are gone forever.

  • People who don't find this beautiful, need a soul transplant!

  • I have tears in my eyes everytime I listen to this piece. I cannot avoid it. Beauty, unhuman...

  • @mandiola2010 You and me both! What a stirringly moving and beautiful piece, sung and played so beautifully.

  • Who is the soprano? She did an exquisite job!

  • @ybagdasa Barbara Bonney

  • 3:40 lowest soprano notes ever hahaha ... more suited to a contralto, Mozart you crazy man lol

  • @PhysicalsimForever Then keep trying to make the most of your life, because unless you renounce your arrogant ignorance and turn your thoughts heavenward, this will be the only life you get... Oh do i pity you!

  • 9 dislikes?????? even my dog is crying!!! sensless people!

  • This is music from heaven above.

  • Mozart never completed this piece. In its current form, it is played as he left it, incomplete. He wrote it as a note of thanksgiving for his wife Constanza surviving an illness that almost killed her. If I have my information correct, he bargained with God: Spare her, and I will write a solemn High Mass in Your honor. She lived, and we now have this masterpiece.

  • @CBordages You have to laugh, though. One of the stages of grief is bargaining with God (i.e., "If you do this, God, I promise to do x,y,or z.") Like the great majority of people who make such bargains with God, though God fulfills his part of the bargain, we don't fulfill ours. Alas, Mozart shows in this unfinished work he is human. Though God healed Constanza, Mozart didn't complete the Mass!

  • Brillante Interpretación!!!

  • He was 26 when he wrote this around 1782

  • Beautiful. <3

  • the orchestral accents are a bit overly-exaggerated :(

  • An impeccable artistic piece which brings the audience nearer to God's mercy. Yet, it will be too long if performed in a real High Mass.

  • They say men are at their best when doing something for a woman. This was written for his future wife, and certainly is a work of pure art.

  • Excellente interprétation, le final à 6:35 est ténébreuse, j'adore.

  • I'm a lead guitarist in a rock band and I have to say, this is the greatest piece of music I've ever heard. If this music doesn't move you, you don't know what music is.

  • 8 people, i like hear reggaeton.

  • This is Barbara Bonney at her best! Absolutely impeccable singing … (choir and orchestra likewise)

  • What is the point of looking at the singers - it just detracts from the music. All classical music venues should have the seats facing away from the musicians!

  • @kevinastraw Richter played almost exclusively in the dark...as to not distract from the music with the work going into it...

  • wonderful

  • formidable. C'est un génie

  • @kourosh89 You made me laugh! Not that I have anything against your musical preferences. However, 200 years from now I am certain that the name Mozart will still be around. (As it has been around for the past 250 years, already!) Not sure I can say the same about 'Lil Wayne'. But, hey, at least you got 'some' culture by clicking on this clip. Bravo!

  • @sgjr03 I wish I could like this comment a million times :)

  • @kourosh89 you know nothing about music don't you ?

  • @kourosh89 u should find professional help

  • @kourosh89 You are an imbecile, ( IDIOT ) just figured i throw that in there for you :) . Since you consider lil wayne real music, then your IQ can't be to high, I pity you .

  • @kourosh89 Can't tell if trolling, or just very stupid.

  • @kourosh89 dude are you serious?

  • @kourosh89 you don't know music

  • That's a person singing. Mozart is dead. your accoladdes should got to that human being with the beautiful voice who is singing

  • @ericbelify It's Mozart living in that person !!! That person cannot perform this good without music sheets, tempo, scale... of course he must get credit, but we must also give credit to the genius that created all that !

  • @slidman2 I agree!

  • heartbreakingly-beautiful

  • Man, this is incredible. The soloist's voice is simply sublime. Perfect for Mozart's writing style. Like, literally...I could not pick a better personification of this solo could sound like.....it's brilliant.

  • You're Philistine, Dan :-)

  • Okay, call me a Philistine but this pales in comparison to Patrick Cassidy's Vide Cor Meum. So far nothing has come close to the emotion and beauty of that. My personal opinion of course...

  • @dandanthepumpkinman for me, that's like comparing 'Pearl Harbour' and 'Citizen Kane' - Vide Cor Meum is lovely, but it's mostly pretty much the same 4 bars being repeated. Here you have technical mastery in the fugal movement of the parts of the melody, intertwining to suddenly flower into something completely different. Just my opinion though ;)

  • @samweiss4 and @rlee120585 ah your having a heated argument. Its not religious its just a piece of music. (Not to challenge anyone I'm just fed up with you to fighting.)

  • The voice of god!!!! (Amadeus)

  • @PhysicalsimForever Beethoven is the real controversy here, is impossible says if he believe in God or not,

    to me seems like both, he believe and don't believe.

  • absolute musical perfection

  • gosh! what a religiously ignorant comment

  • @PhysicalsimForever Lol an atheist could never write something like this. All they do is live out their mundane lifes without any purpose or meaning or inspiration simply marching to the grave, hows that atheism working out for you hmm?

  • Art is the best expression of human complexities, it is as beautiful only as it is sincere and free. Now I don't see what this has to do with God!

  • She sings it so wonderfull!! With so mutch respect of the way of writing from Mozart.. Amazing...

  • Miraculous

  • Thank you Anna she does, I thinkl the best rendition of this Ive heard. The small choir is great too.

  • WHO IS THE SAPRANO

  • @papadon48 Barbara Bonney :)

  • if you have mozart to listen to, why do you need god???

  • @samweiss4 because sam, it was god that inspired this piece of music. this piece of music was intended to glorify god.

  • @rlee120585 how could you know that mozart intended this music to "glorify god?" And for that matter, what evidence do you have that God exists? I do not want to turn this video into a theological debate, but still...

  • @samweiss4 im not arguing on the existence of god, what i'm saying is that this piece of music has religious connotations to it. why? because it simply is. it's a mass. and in particular, this is kyrie, if you knew anything about religious or sacred choral music you would know. look it up on wikipedia if you like.

  • @rlee120585 I understand it is a mass (I am not an idiot), but my point is that for all we know Mozart intended this piece to challenge god. I am not saying that that is the case, but none of us could know how the piece meant to Mozart.

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  • @samweiss4 My point is a factual statement, not to instigate or make any certain assumption about Mozart. I do not know if Mozart was a religious but I do think he was in fact a believer in a God. My assertion is this: This piece is a Mass-Kyrie and by default it is naturally religious, like Bach's St. Matthew's Passion or Handel's Messiah, with religious implications.

  • @rlee120585 I agree that it is a religious piece, but the meaning is really up to the listener to interpret.

  • @rlee120585 that I am in agreement with. I was challenging that it was religiously inspired

  • @samweiss4 The truth is... This was written for mass. If mass isn't about the Glory of God, about the Love of God, then i don't know what else is? I've been brought up in an atheist family, but I cannot deny, the greatest artists in paint, sculpture, architecture, music and poetry, have been inspired by some element of religion. Even the Greek temples, tragedies, were about gods. There is something undeniably mysterious about the power of the great beyond in human artistic expression.

  • @HNCS2006 see PhysicalsimForever's posts

  • 3:00-4:14

  • questa musica entra prepotentemente negli spazi più nascosti dell'anima.

  • That soprano was soooo good.

  • Does anyone know how many vocalist this piece was origanally written for by Mozart? To me the balance sounds right. Not too over done by having too many people in the chour. This girl Is amazing. Again she is not over doing her part. She sounds just like the little song bird that Mozart was looking for.

  • Majestic, glorius, magnificent!!! God exists, and He inspired Mozart to give this music as a gift to humanity.

  • Breathtaking

    

  • Thanks!

  • Gorgeous, powerful

  • Grande Mozart!

    Misael.

  • Immortal..

  • The soprano is something else throughout this entire Mass...Challenged. This is the Olympics for vocal chords. Don't try this at home...

  • the soprano is GORGEOUS

  • Antonio Salieri in Amadeus speaking about Mozart music: "Displace one note... and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase, and the structure would fall. It was clear to me... that sound I had heard in the archbishop's palace... had been no accident. Here again was the very voice of God. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes... at an absolute beauty." This makes the idea....

  • @Y3k666

    this was just the movie. salieri did not really say this.

  • @gloriaphantasma

    of couse Gloria, since Amadeus takes inspiration from the short play "Mozart and Salieri" written by Aleksandr Pushkin. I was just reporting his speech because i found it deeply touching and passionate. Have a Nice Day listening to this superb music :D

  • a humans soul put to music :)

    if you want more soul music, go listen to some Shajarian :) , hes got tons of it

  • music for eternity

  • How I long to have been there on the night and experience a bit of heaven - absolutely divine.

  • COULD YOU PLEASE UPLOAD THE REST OF THE GREAT MASS WITH THE MONTEVERDI CHOIR?!?!?!

  • Thank you Lord, for blessing us with Amadeus!

  • I can't believe a human being could be able to write music like this. It's so beautiful it makes me want to cry.

  • @RideTheLightning316 I did cry....this is one of the few recordings that has that privilege with me

  • @RideTheLightning316

    Agreed. I'm agnostic but if anyone would try to convince me that God exists, music like this probably would be the best proof he got.

  • @Y3k666 Beautiful the way you have turned it out... I know, Mozart was the best to me

  • @Y3k666 Then shut the fuck up and worship god, this music was written by a person that had studied music all of his life, he was a one of a kind genius. If you want to give credit to a god thats fucking fine, but it would be far more convincing if this was written by a person who had no experience at all. Even if a person would slip on a bananapeel while having a pencil in his pocket and it flew out and made this piece magically that wouldn't be proof of god.

  • @RideTheLightning316 Only mortals can read and write;;;everything else is only tradational fuff...To bad when Mozart died, he was buried with all the other commoner's. But, we are all biodegradable: I have never seen or heard of any coffin lined with hundred dollar bill's. You do have excellent.

  • @RideTheLightning316 Perfection is hard to beat.

  • 4:17 epic!

  • At 5:02 the file and its contents slip from Salieri's hands and fall on to the floor.

    Constanze: "Is it not good" ?

    Salieri:(after a pause) "It's miraculous."

  • @DoubleGauss Murry Abarham did such a good acting job in this movie. I love that part where he looses himself and drops Mozarts music all over the floor. You can clearly see his passion for the music. I believe that Mozart is greatest composser of all time, and it was this movie that turned my thirsty ears towards classical music and the masters.

  • @Glosuraban Intellect and Classical music have no direct correlation, stop generalizing. "Jizz in my pants" is a joke song anyways.

  • This is such a brilliant piece by Mozart, unfortunate that once you listened to it you can never get the same felling you got when you first heard it!

  • @1122431567138541 I do...really. that part that starts at 4:15 makes me feel that mozart had in mind centuries of human progress and that he was trying to communicate to us how far we've come as a species on this little spec of a planet in a few thousand years, and of the promise and hopefulness of the future and stuff like that. most likely he wasn't thinking exactly that but that's what I feel he's saying to me. absolutley gorgeous music!

  • @AntonioQuijano if god existed...

  • @areld he does...it's called the universe.

  • This is utterly out of this stupid world. Stupid because a video called "jizz in my pants" has 13 million views and this video has only 175 thousand.

  • @Glosuraban wow i couldnt agree with you more, what a shame...

  • sounds like its in the key of B minor lol

  • This song fucks me in every position.

  • I'm an atheist, but honestly, the only doubt I have about the meaning of supernatural is the music of Mozart. I can't find an answer how it can be made by a mere human being.

    2. Gloria - "Glory to Mozart in the Highest..."

  • @darwinism14 Beethoven also has the ability to transcend what is merely human and take us to another world where even the most stubborn atheist has to be awed at the beauty and ask how can it be. The Masses of Schubert are of equil quality as well.

  • @napoleon10001 I think Mozart would disagree with you.

  • Gives me chills.

  • he was a man... just a MAN.. isn't it incredible??

  • is it just me, or does it sound more like mozart was trying to atone, as opposed to pray? More like saying Christ have mercy (on me) as opposed to just the prayer

  • On the date of Mozart's birthday anniversary I was with my wife in the Beaux Arts in Brussels listening to the Great Mass in C with Gardiner...an amazing performance. My wife was pregnant at the time and our baby was reacting to the beauty of the music. When he was born, we called him Elliott

  • @kapost01 That is a beautiful story :)

  • @Elainelps0421

    Thanks Elaine!

  • Iis this Barbara Bonney?

  • Did anyone else notice that his initials spell WAM!!? ftw =D

  • Mozart touches me so profoundly that no words are adequate to describe it. Listening to the Great Mass in C, I need no further proof of the existence of God

  • @kapost01 i love the speech old Salieri gives in Amadeus when this gorgeous soprano solo is playing - "page after page, as if he were taking dictation from God himslef. This was a music I had never heard, God was singing through this little man (mozart was only 5' 2!). I was staring through a cage of barlines at absolute beauty.."

  • @Doug19752533

    Doug, I fully agree with you...what a great speech!

  • ....Such beauty......

  • This is my favorite part of that mass.

  • Interesting, I thought this was transposed down until I realized that it is being performed with period instruments. In Mozart's day, middle A was not 440, but more like about 402-410 Hz. These may be period instruments, but they are still tuned with equal temperament, which just makes it sound like a transposition.

  • @zither74 you are correct

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