Requiem, in Full Score

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Requiem, K.626. Completado por Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766-1803).

This Dover edition of one of Mozart?s greatest, most enduring choral works, despite its inexpensive price, has been published according to standards of high quality that will afford years of use and enjoyment.
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 recently 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 his death by year?s end. At the invitation of Mozart?s widow, one of his pupils, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, working from oral instructions and sketches left by the master, finished the nearly completed work.
In the two centuries since, it 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 majestically combines the voices of orchestra, chorus and four soloists into a deeply moving, elegiac work of glowing intensity.

CONTENIDO:

Requiem
Dies irae
Tuba mirum
Rex tremendae
Recordare
Confutatis
Lacrimosa
Domine Jesu
Hostias
Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus Dei