Mozart Requiem
June 8th, 2006Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was commissioned by a secretive person (we now know it was a rather eccentric Count von Walsegg-Stuppach, and through intermediaries) to write a Requiem and was given half his commission in advance. He set about this task in mid-1791 when he still had quite good health.
Mozart was a great composer of repute by this time, at the age of only 35, and had completed a vast list of compositions, from piano concertos to string-quartets, sonatas to operas, symphonies to solo works. Perhaps his Mass in C minor, written in 1783 and an immediate success was the reason the Count wanted Mozart’s music for himself?
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