Requiem (Mozart) facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Requiem |
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| by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | |
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The composer in 1782
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| Key | D minor |
| Catalogue | K. 626 |
| Text | Requiem |
| Language | Latin |
| Composed | 1791 |
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The Requiem Mass in D minor K626 is a famous piece of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart which he composed in 1791. This requiem (a 'requiem' is a mass (church service) to remember people who have died), was Mozart's last composition. He wrote it as he lay dying himself. It seems that he did not manage to finish it before he died, and that it was finished by another musician called Franz Xaver Süssmayr. We do not know exactly how much of the music is by Mozart, and how much Süssmayr had to add. There have been lots of stories and ideas about how the Requiem was composed, and it is still a problem that is often discussed by musicians.
Images for kids
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The first page of Mozart's autograph score
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The beginning of the Dies irae in the autograph manuscript, with Eybler's orchestration. In the upper right, Nissen has left a note: "All which is not enclosed by the quill is of Mozart's hand up to page 32." The first violin, choir and figured bass are entirely Mozart's.
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Constanze in 1802, portrait by Hans Hansen
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1857 lithograph by Franz Schramm, titled Ein Moment aus den letzten Tagen Mozarts ("Moment from the Last Days of Mozart"). Mozart, with the score of the Requiem on his lap, gives Süssmayr last-minute instructions. Constanze is to the side and the messenger is leaving through the main door.
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Michael Haydn (younger brother of Joseph Haydn), whose own Requiem influenced Mozart
See also
In Spanish: Réquiem (Mozart) para niños
