Mozart’s last work, the Requiem, has this almost otherworldly story around it. A stranger in dark clothes asked him to compose music for a funeral and wouldn’t say for whom. Mozart, already very weak and tired, started to believe he was writing it for himself. He didn’t live to finish it — his friends and students completed it after his death so it could still be heard. Today the Requiem isn’t just “scary.” It’s powerful, emotional, and incredibly human. It feels like a goodbye, but also like a