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Requiem in Full Score
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 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 that would end in the composer's death by the year's end. At the invitation of Mozart's widow, one of the master's pupils worked from oral instructions and sketches to finish the nearly completed work.
In the centuries since, Mozart's Requiem has come to be embraced as a masterpiece of vocal composition. One of the most recorded and performed standards of the repertoire, here reprinted in an authoritative edition, it combines the voices of orchestra, chorus, and soloists into a deeply moving, elegiac work of great intensity.
In the centuries since, Mozart's Requiem has come to be embraced as a masterpiece of vocal composition. One of the most recorded and performed standards of the repertoire, here reprinted in an authoritative edition, it combines the voices of orchestra, chorus, and soloists into a deeply moving, elegiac work of great intensity.
- GenresMusicScoresNonfiction
112 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1985
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
10.3k books182 followersJohann Georg Leopold Mozart, the Austrian composer, toured Europe with his son, child prodigy, noted Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who gracefully and imaginatively refined the classical style with symphonies, concertos, operas, Masses, sonatas, and chambers among his 626 numbered works.
The comic plays of French writer Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais inspired Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to operas.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart prolifically influenced the era. Many persons acknowledged this pinnacle of piano and choral music. His popularity most endures.
Mozart showed earliest ability. From the age of five years in 1761 already competently on keyboard and violin performed before royalty. At seventeen years in 1773, a court musician in Salzburg engaged him, who restlessly traveled always abundantly in search of a better position.
Mozard visited Vienna in 1781; Salzburg dismissed his position, and he chose to stay in the capital and achieved fame but little financial security over the rest of life. The final years in Vienna yielded his many best-known Requiem . People much mythologized the circumstances of his early death. Constanze Mozart, his wife, two sons survived him.
Mozart always learned voraciously and developed a brilliance and maturity that encompassed the light alongside the dark and passionate; a vision of humanity, "redeemed through art, forgiven, and reconciled with nature and the absolute," informed the whole. He profoundly influenced all subsequent western art music. Ludwig van Beethoven wrote on his own early in the shadow of Mozart, of whom Franz Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years."
The comic plays of French writer Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais inspired Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to operas.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart prolifically influenced the era. Many persons acknowledged this pinnacle of piano and choral music. His popularity most endures.
Mozart showed earliest ability. From the age of five years in 1761 already competently on keyboard and violin performed before royalty. At seventeen years in 1773, a court musician in Salzburg engaged him, who restlessly traveled always abundantly in search of a better position.
Mozard visited Vienna in 1781; Salzburg dismissed his position, and he chose to stay in the capital and achieved fame but little financial security over the rest of life. The final years in Vienna yielded his many best-known Requiem . People much mythologized the circumstances of his early death. Constanze Mozart, his wife, two sons survived him.
Mozart always learned voraciously and developed a brilliance and maturity that encompassed the light alongside the dark and passionate; a vision of humanity, "redeemed through art, forgiven, and reconciled with nature and the absolute," informed the whole. He profoundly influenced all subsequent western art music. Ludwig van Beethoven wrote on his own early in the shadow of Mozart, of whom Franz Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years."
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March 24, 2024
What can one say? I got to hear choral composer/conductor Eric Whitacre conduct this piece tonight with the Grammy award winning Louisville Orchestra and the Louisville Chamber Choir. It was absolutely amazing and I brought my mini score to follow along. 5⭐️ and I'm totally counting this in my March book reads. 😍🎵
May 1, 2021
La clásica versión del Reueim de Mozart por Sussmayer no empeña, pese a que haya momentos en que su mano no alcanza la maestría estremecedora de la de Mozart, la maestría del diseño de esta obra. Muy recomendable no solo escuchar para compararla la versión de Levin, que no deja de ser una revisión de la de Sussmayr, con todo lo que se supone que tiene de "reconstrucción" de la idea original (?) sino alguna grabación que recoge el material que Mozart dejó tras su muerte. Lo cual nos permite apreciar la grandeza de por sí de esta obra.
June 12, 2025
"Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine:
Cum Sanctus tuis in aeternum: quia pius es.
Requiem aeternam dona eis.
Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Cum Sanctis tuits in aeternum: quia pius es."
Cum Sanctus tuis in aeternum: quia pius es.
Requiem aeternam dona eis.
Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Cum Sanctis tuits in aeternum: quia pius es."
August 7, 2007
forte piano forte forte piano forte forte
September 3, 2009
I miss singing from this awe-inspiring piece of Mozart's towards the end of his life. This piece of work requires a chamber orchestra but a humongous choir to execute.
February 19, 2016
As a violinist and a classical music lover, reading the score to one of the most incredible pieces of music is a treat. It's just simply stunning.
May 30, 2018
Beautiful
What a wonderful piece. Love to sing this and this sheet music works great on a 10 inch tablet. Wow
What a wonderful piece. Love to sing this and this sheet music works great on a 10 inch tablet. Wow
Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews