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Requiem KV 626

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Requiem KV 626

Description: Hardly any other musical masterpiece has given rise to more romantic legends and speculative theories than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem KV 626. It was Mozart’s last work, which he was unable to finish, and is considered as one of the most important compositions in sacred music. The mysterious dark messenger who commissioned the work remained a mystery for some time. During the course of the 19. century it first became known that he was Count Franz Walsegg-Stuppach’s agent. The count placed an anonymous order for a requiem with Mozart because he intended to tell people it was his own work. After Mozart had died on 5 December 1791, leaving the requiem incomplete, his widow, Constanze, had to find someone to finish it, as Count Walsegg-Stuppach was becoming increasingly impatient. After several unsuccessful attempts by Joseph Eybler, Mozart’s pupil Franz Xaver Süßmayr took over, finished the orchestration and added the sections Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei. This is the reason why Mozart’s last work survives in two manuscript volumes.

Only the first movement of the commissioned score (i.e. the volume which Constanze Mozart handed over to Count Walsegg-Stuppach according to the original agreement) is in Mozart’s hand, the rest is written by Süßmayr. The working score, however, which begins with the Dies irae contains all the surviving sections in Mozart’s hand. The imperial library (now the Austrian National Library) acquired the precious manuscript in various stages: in 1831 and 1833 the working score was acquired from Joseph Eybler and Maximilian Stadler and in 1838 the commissioned score from Katharina Adelpoller.
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Date: [1791]
Type: Manuscript
Identifier: http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/libraryTreasures.html?libraryid=5#5
Provenance: Count Franz Walsegg-Stuppach; Maximilian Stadler 1831; Joseph Eybler 1833; Katharina Adelpoller 1838; Music Department: Mu
Source: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek; Austrian National Library; Austria; The European Library
Provider: The European Library
Providing country: Europe

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