MOST listeners know that Mozart died before he had completed his Requiem, and the version we usually hear is a completion mainly by his pupil Franz Xavier Sussmayer. MOST listeners know that Mozart ...

Copy of a portrait of Mozart from 1777 by Padre Martini of Bologna. The summer of 1791 saw Mozart hard at work on not one, but two operas. The Magic Flute was mostly complete by July when it was ...

Sussmayr was no Mozart. But such was the beauty of Mozart s unfinished Requiem that for 180 years musicians overlooked Sussmayr s imperfect scoring and continued to perform the piece. Then, in 1979, ...

https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2008.61.1.1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jams.2008.61.1.1 Abstract Franz Xaver Süssmayr's letter to the publisher Härtel (1800 ...

Thanks partly to the secrecy of its commission, and partly to his having died before its completion, Mozart's Requiem is one of music's most tantalising pieces, prompting eternal dispute as to which ...

Mozart’s unfinished Requiem could be the music for a compelling dance work. For MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham, however, Mozart is just the starting point. His “Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth” ...