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Apr 4, 2024 · Requiem in D Minor, K 626, requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, left incomplete at his death on December 5, 1791. Until the late 20th century the work was most often heard as it had been completed by Mozart’s student Franz Xaver Sussmayr. Later completions have since been offered.
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Feb 15, 2023 · February 15, 2023 by Timothy Judd. Mystery and intrigue have long surrounded the genesis of Mozart’s Requiem in D minor. In early July of 1791, an “unknown, gray stranger” visited the composer, bearing a commission for a Requiem from an anonymous patron.
When Mozart’s Requiem in D minor was completed in 1792, it was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg. He was the man who originally commissioned the piece to form part of a Requiem service in commemoration of the anniversary of his wife’s death.
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Feb 14, 2021 · When Mozart’s Requiem in D minor was completed in 1792, it was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg. He was the man who originally commissioned the piece to form part of a Requiem service in commemoration of the anniversary of his wife’s death.
Feb 21, 2018 · K.626. The Requiem was most likely written by Mozart for his own pleasure but certainly not for his own funeral, or with his funeral in mind. It is also thought that the person who mysteriously commissioned the Requiem was Count Franz von Walsegg-Stuppach.
