ORCHESTRA
Requiem
in Full Score
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Page Count:106
Edizioni:Dover

One of the most recorded and performed religious works in the repertoire, this masterpiece of vocal composition, composed shortly before Mozart's death, majestically combines the voices of orchestra, chorus, and 4 soloists into a deeply moving, elegiac work of glowing intensity.

This Dover edition of one of Mozart’s greatest, most eriduring choral works, despite its inexpensive price, has been published according to standards of high quality that will afford years of use and enjoyment.

The Requiem was not only one of Mozart’s most inspired works, it was one of his last. It was commissioned in the summer of 1791 to memorialize the recently deceased wife of Count Walsegg-Stuppach, an amateur musician who was in the habit of ordering works from composers and presenting them as his own compositions. But his dubious patronage arrived only weeks before the rapid decline in Mozart’s health thatwould end in his death by year’s end. At the invitation
of Mozart’s widow, one of his pupils, Franz Xaver Sussmayr, working from oral instructions and sketches left by the master, finished the nearly completed work.

In the two centuries since, it has come to be ernbraced as a masterpiece of vocal composition. One of the most recorded and performed standards of the repertoire, here reprinted in an authoritative edition, it majestically combines the voices of orchestra, chorus and four soloists into a deeply moving, elegiac work of glowing intensity.

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