Word: walsegg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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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