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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...
...University of Pennsylvania Choral Society with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Harl McDonald conducting; Victor: 12 sides). In 1791, as 35-year-old Mozart neared death in Vienna, a mysterious stranger offered him 50 ducats ($112.50) to write a Requiem. The stranger was an agent of one Count Franz von Walsegg, who wanted to pass the composition off as his own. Ill, impoverished Mozart accepted the commission, asked no questions, wrote his Requiem as if for himself. Death took him before the end; his pupils finished the manuscript. His last work, it is also-one of his greatest. This, somewhat heavyhanded...
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