Mozart's Requiem is a work we will never really have. It is among those unfinished works (in this case unfinished because of Mozart's untimely death) that will remain an enigma for all time. One may query what it might have sounded like had Mozart lived to complete it. Mozart had almost completed the Introit and Kyrie and also the vocal parts and bass line for the Sequentia and the Offertorium. What had yet to be fleshed out were the instrumental parts for these last two sections and the composition of the remaining ...
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Mozart's Requiem is a work we will never really have. It is among those unfinished works (in this case unfinished because of Mozart's untimely death) that will remain an enigma for all time. One may query what it might have sounded like had Mozart lived to complete it. Mozart had almost completed the Introit and Kyrie and also the vocal parts and bass line for the Sequentia and the Offertorium. What had yet to be fleshed out were the instrumental parts for these last two sections and the composition of the remaining movements of this requiem mass.Determined that this work should be finished so she would not have to return the commission payment, and after having been turned down by several musicians, Mozart's widow received agreement from Franz Xaver Süssmayr to undertake the daunting task of the Requiem's completion. Süssmayr, who was sometimes employed by Mozart as a composer and collaborator, was a composition student of Mozart's at the time of Mozart's death. After Mozart died, Süssmayr took...
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