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Quantus tremor est futurus

Friday, February 3, 2006 ★ 21:16 ★ Category Music

This year Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would’ve turned 250 years old. To celebrate his birthday, I’ve made a desktop wallpaper dedicated to the last piece of music he wrote, but didn’t finish: his famous Requiem in D minor. A requiem is not really a piece of music one would expect to hear at a birthday party, but I’ve not been in the mood for parties lately (for various reasons).

Quantus tremor est futurus

A full-scale version is also available.

Trivia: Did you know Mozart’s grave was reopened ten years after his death? His skull was taken out by the man who buried him. It seems several of the successive owners heard music and screaming coming from the room where the skull was kept. It is kept safely in a museum nowadays, hidden from public view. Read more about this ghost story at the Castle of Spirits.

Update: The image looks good on my laptop screen, but can hardly be seen on my Iiyama CRT monitor… the contrast is too low to read the text. The high contrast version may look better, depending on your monitor.