Before 1791. 2 January 1772: Mozart participates in the premiere of Michael Haydn's Requiem in C minor.; 21 September 1784: Birth of Mozart's older son, Karl Thomas Mozart. 20 April 1789: Mozart visits Leipzig where he studied works by Bach.
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The Music for the Requiem Mass is any music that accompanies the Requiem, a Mass in the Catholic Church for the deceased. It has inspired a large number of compositions, including settings by Mozart, Berlioz, Donizetti, Verdi, Bruckner, Dvořák, Fauré and Duruflé.
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At the time of Mozart's death on 5 December 1791, only the opening movement (Requiem aeternam) was completed in all of the orchestral and vocal parts. The following Kyrie and most of the sequence (from Dies Irae to Confutatis) were complete only in the vocal parts and the continuo (the figured organ bass), though occasionally some of the prominent orchestral parts were briefly indicated, such as the first violin part of the Rex tremendae and Confutatis and the musical bridges in the Recordare...
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The eccentric count Franz von Walsegg commissioned the Requiem from Mozart anonymously through intermediaries. The count, an amateur chamber musician who routinely commissioned works by composers and passed them off as his own, wanted a Requiem Mass he could claim he composed to memorialize the recent passing of his wife. Mozart received only half of the payment in advance, so upon his death his widow Constanze was keen to have the work completed secretly by someone else, submit it to t...
In the 1960s a sketch for an Amen fugue was discovered, which some musicologists (Levin, Maunder) believe belongs to the Requiem at the conclusion of thesequence after the Lacrymosa. H. C. Robbins Landon argues that this Amen fugue was not intended for the Requiem, rather that it "may have been for a separate unfinished Mass in D minor" to which the Kyrie K. 341 also belonged. There is, however, compelling evidence placing the "Amen Fugue" in the Requiem based on current Mozart scholarship...
This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2012)*January 2, 1772: Mozart participates in the premiere of Michael Haydn's Requiem in C minor. 1. February 14, 1791: Anna, Count von Walsegg'swife, dies at the age of 20. 2. mid-July: A messenger (probably Franz Anton Leitgeb, the count's steward) arrives with note asking Mozart to write a Requiem Mass. 3. mid-July: Commission from Domenico Guardasoni, impresario of the Prague National Theatre to compose the opera, La clemenza di Tito(K. 621), for the festivities surrounding the coronation on September 6 of Leopold II as King of Bohemia. 4. August: Mozart works mainly on La clemenza di Tito; completed by September 5. 5. August 25: Mozart leaves for Prague. 6. September 6: Mozart conducts premiere of La clemenza di Tito. 7. mid-September – September 28: Revision and completion of The Magi...
Play audio file The Süssmayr completion of the Requiemis divided into fourteen movements, with the following structure: Bars 1–5 of the Lacrimosa*I. Introitus 1. 1.1. Requiem (choir and sopranosolo) (D minor) Play audio file Kyrie, Bruno Walter, 1956.*II. Kyrie(choir) (D minor) 1. III. Sequentia (text based on sections of the Dies Irae) 1.1. Dies irae (choir) (D minor) 1.2. Tuba mirum (soprano, contralto, tenor and basssolo) (B-flat major) 1.3. Rex tremendae (choir) (G minor–D minor) 1.4. Recordare (soprano, contralto, tenor and bass solo) (F major) 1.5. Confutatis (choir) (A minor–F major, last chord V of D minor) 1.6. Lacrimosa(choir) (D minor) 2. IV. Offertorium 1. 1.1. Domine Jesu (choir with solo quartet) (G minor) 1.2. Hostias (choir) (E-flat major–G minor) 2. V. Sanctus(choir) (D major) 3. VI. Benedictus (solo quartet and choir) (B-flat major) 4. VII. Agnus Dei(choir) (D minor–B-flat major) 5. VIII. Communio 1. 1.1. Lux aeterna (soprano solo and choir) (B-flat major–D minor)...
Mozart esteemed Handel and in 1789 he was commissioned by Baron Gottfried van Swieten to rearrange Messiah. This work likely influenced the composition of Mozart's Requiem; the Kyrie is probably based on the And with his stripes we are healed chorus from Handel's Messiah (HWV 56), since the subject of the fugato, in which Handel was a master, is the same, with only slight variations by adding ornaments on melismata. Some believe that the Introitus was inspired by Handel's Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline (HWV 264), and some have also remarked that the Confutatis may have been inspired by Sinfonia Venezia by Pasquale Anfossi. Another influence was Michael Haydn's Requiem in C minorwhich he and his father heard at the first three performances in January 1772. Some have noted that M. Haydn's "Introitus" sounds rather similar to Mozart's, and the theme for the fugue of Mozart's Offertorium No. 1 is a direct quote of the theme of M. Haydn's Offertorium and Versus.
With multiple levels of deception surrounding the Requiem's completion, a natural outcome is the mythologizing which subsequently occurred. One series of myths surrounding the Requiem involves the role Antonio Salieri played in the commissioning and completion of the Requiem (and in Mozart's death generally). While the most recent retelling of this myth is Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus and the movie made from it, it is important to note that the source of misinformation was actually a 19th-century play by Alexander Pushkin, Mozart and Salieri, which was turned into an opera by Rimsky-Korsakov and subsequently used as the framework forAmadeus.
The autograph of the Requiem was placed on display at the World's Fair in 1958 in Brussels. At some point during the fair, someone was able to gain access to the manuscript, tearing off the bottom right-hand corner of the second to last page (folio 99r/45r), containing the words "Quam olim d: C:" (an instruction that the "Quam olim" fugue of the Domine Jesu was to be repeated "da capo", at the end of the Hostias). The perpetrator has not been identified and the fragment has not been recovered. If the most common authorship theory is true, then "Quam olim d: C:" might very well be the last words Mozart wrote before he died. It is probable that whoever stole the fragment believed that to be the case.
Kyrie, eleison. Christe, eleison. Kyrie, eleison.
Requiem i d-mol (KV 626) fra 1791 er Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts sidste komposition. Selvom det menes, at det kun er 2/3 af værket, der stammer fra Mozarts egen hånd, hører det til et af hans mest berømte og elskede værker. Mozart nåede ikke at fuldende værket før sin død.
Recviemul în re minor (KV 626) din anul 1791 este ultima compoziție a lui Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.Deși doar aproximativ două treimi din lucrare au fost scrise de el și în pofida faptului că nu este singurul recviem compus de Mozart, Recviemul în re minor, cu numărul KV 626 în catalogul Köchel, este una dintre operele sale cele mai cunoscute și apreciate.
Komponálása és befejezése. A mű szoprán, alt, tenor és basszus szólistákra, valamint kórusra íródott egy kisebb klasszikus zenekar kíséretével. Mozart 1791. december 5-i halálakor csak a nyitótétel (Requiem aeternam) volt teljesen befejezve (újabban úgy tűnik, hogy a zenekari rész néhány ütemét is már valaki más írta hozzá).
Requiem Aethernam: Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion, et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem: exaudi orationem meam, ad te omnis caro veniet. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Repouso eterno dá-lhes, Senhor, e que a luz perpétua os ilumine.
Mozart byl však uprostřed práce přemožen infekční nemocí. Zemřel 5. prosince 1791 a Requiem nedokončil. Po skladatelově smrti se Mozartova vdova Constanze zavázala hudebnímu nakladatelství Breitkopf und Hartel, že Requiem bude dokončeno a připraveno k vydání.