Composed by Andrew Lloyd Weber as the penultimate motet on his 1984's Missa Pro Defuncti, Pie Jesu was first performed by Sarah Brightman at NYC's Saint Thomas' Episcopal Church during a Requiem Mess in the memory of Weber's progenitor. Weber's Requiem doesn't follow the traditional Requiem Sequence (Introito, Kyrie, etc.) constructed around the latin hymn "Dies Irae", where a "Pious Jesus" is only referenced on the final verses of Agnus Dei, wich is often the final movement on a musical Requiem.

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