Lux Aeterna

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Lux Aeterna can refer to the following:

• The Latin term lux aeterna, which means "eternal light"
• The communion chant for a Requiem Mass, named for its incipit. It is often attached to the Agnus Dei movement, but composers who set the Communion as a separate movement of their Requiems include:
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Requiem) (1791)
  • Giuseppe Verdi (Requiem) (1874)
  • Maurice Duruflé (Requiem) (1947)
  • John Rutter (Requiem) (1986)

• The title of several other works of classical and popular composers, including:
  • A choral work by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti, composed in 1966; it was also used in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey during the scenes depicting the travel from the Clavius moonbase to the TMA-1 excavation.
  • The U.S. composer George Crumb has an avant-garde piece titled Lux Aeterna for 5 masked musicians (1971).
  • Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna (1997) is a five movement quasi-Requiem that includes elements from the traditional Latin Requiem and combined them with other Latin prayers that included reference to light
  • Other composers who have used the title include:
    • Nadia Boulanger
    • Stephen Chatman
    • Sir Edward Elgar
    • William Ferris
    • Edwin Fissinger
    • Scott Giles
    • David Hamilton
    • Fredrik Sixten from his Requiem
    • Howard Hanson
    • James Horner
    • Alexander Knaifel
    • Joonas Kokkonen
    • Teodulo Mabellini
    • William Mathias
    • Zbigniew Preisner
    • Robert Prizeman
    • Wolfgang Rihm
    • Terje Rypdal
    • Gabriel Faure
    • Pawel Szymanski
    • Paul Schwartz
• Lux Aeterna is an album by woodwind player Dave Fitzgerald
• Lux Aeterna is the theme song to the film Requiem for a Dream, written by Clint Mansell and performed by Kronos Quartet