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Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupM. Haydn: Requiem in B-Flat Major, MH 838 - I. Requiem aeternam · Lydia Teuscher · KammerChor Saarbrücken · Kamme...
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Files "cleaned" Aug/12 Michael Haydn Requiem in C minor (MH 155) There is an excellent performance of this Work by the Finnish RSO, under A Mustonen, on YouTube starting here.
The c minor Requiem was prompted by the death of Archbishop von Schrattenbach on 16 December 1771. MH wrote swiftly, completing the piece on 31 December in time for the funeral on 2 January 1772. Since MH’s only child, a daughter, had died earlier in 1771, at less than a year old, there’s some speculation that he already had some funeral ...
