Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lacrimosa

W.A. Mozart: Requiem In D Minor, K.626 - 1. Introitus: Requiem · Anna Tomowa-Sintow · Wiener Singverein · Wiener Philharmoniker · Herbert von Karajan · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1987 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin

Released on: 1987-01-01

Producer: Michel Glotz
Studio Personnel, Balance Engineer, Producer: Günter Hermanns
Associated Performer, Chorus Master: Helmut Froschauer
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Author: Anonymous
Arranger, Work Arranger: Franz Xaver Süssmayr

Lacrimosa
The work was never delivered by Mozart, who died before he had finished composing it, only finishing the first few bars of the Lacrimosa. The opening movement, Requiem aeternam, was the only section to be completed. It was brushed into some sort of shape by Mozart’s only composition pupil, Sussmayr, but to the complete lack of satisfaction of scholars down the centuries. As a result, the world and his wife have tried to complete it after him. Regardless, the Requiem still sounds wonderful to most ears.

To add further intrigue, when the unfinished manuscript was displayed in Brussels in the 1950s, a section was torn from the last page and never retrieved. As Mozart worked on the Requiem on his deathbed, it’s highly likely that someone stole the last notes ever written by Mozart.

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