Mozart’s haunting ‘Lacrimosa’ from his famous Requiem, written in 1791 as the composer himself was in ailing health. The Requiem had been commissioned by an anonymous figure, and as Mozart’s health ...

Mozart's Requiem is a choral masterpiece whose genesis is shrouded in mystery – one that makes the piece all the more fascinating and emotionally stirring. Mozart was not in the best state of mind ...

Franz Beyer, a German violist and musicologist who carefully revised Mozart’s Requiem, the choral masterpiece that the composer left unfinished at his death nearly two centuries earlier, died on June ...

Mozart's Requiem is one of the most famous choral works in the classical repertoire. The mournful 'Lacrimosa' is a highlight, but how much of it did Mozart actually write? We all know that Wolfgang ...

Manfred Honeck leads the San Francisco Symphony in a reimagined Mozart Requiem at Davies Symphony Hall, featuring Ying Fang and Sasha Cooke among guest vocalists.

Copy of a portrait of Mozart from 1777 by Padre Martini of Bologna. The summer of 1791 saw Mozart hard at work on not one, but two operas. The Magic Flute was mostly complete by July when it was ...

Most performances of Mozart’s Requiem are exactly what Headlam described: an act of imagination. They include portions of the work completed not by Mozart, who died before finishing it, but rather by ...

When the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Chorus performs Mozart’s “Requiem” Friday through next Sunday, the performers will be wading into one of music history’s most intriguing stories. Nothing in ...