The Dies Irae is part of the mass used in the Roman Catholic church. Musical settings exist from several hundred years prior to Mozart. They are still being composed today.
The Consilium felt that the funeral rite was in need of reform and eliminated the sequence as such from the Masses for the Dead. They got rid of texts that smacked of a negative spirituality inherited from the Middle Ages. Thus they removed the "Dies Irae", and others that overemphasized judgment, fear, and despair. These they replaced with texts urging Christian hope and arguably giving more effective expression to faith in the resurrection.
But now, with his "tough love" philosophy, Dr. Phil is bringing it back. We apparently need judgement and fear in order to produce more efficient members of society.
For me the Mozart Requiem becomes dark and scary when the hacks take over.
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