Word: stuppach
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...death in 1791 at age 35 is a rich source of drama and speculation. The man whom Joseph Haydn unhesitatingly acknowledged as his superior struggles against a fatal fever to complete his last composition. The D Minor Requiem is written for Count Franz Walsegg-Stuppach, who wormed a place in history by secretly commissioning the work in order to pass it off as his own. Several bars of the Lacrymosa are probably the last notes Mozart ever wrote. The requiem was completed by his student Franz Süssmayr...