The ways of Zion do mourn / Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264, is an anthem composed by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed at the funeral of the Queen at Westminster Abbey on 17 December 1737. Handel slightly re-worked the anthem and used it for the opening section of his oratorio Israel in Egypt in 1739. The theme of the first chorus was taken by Mozart as the theme for the Requiem aeternam movement of his Requiem Mass. The anthem is approximately forty minutes in length.

Type Anthem
Catalogue HWV 264
Spoken language English
Instruments Chorus/Choir
Orchestra
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Autotranslations beta Georg Friedrich Haendel: The ways of Zion do mourn, HWV 264
Georg Friedrich Händel: The ways of Zion do mourn, HWV 264
Georg Friedrich Händel: The ways of Zion do mourn, HWV 264