Controversy and scandal have surrounded Mozart’s landmark Requiem from the very beginning. An anonymous patron commissioned the work to commemorate the death of his wife. The patron may or may not ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a page from his Requiem score. Here are selections from the Department of Music’s year-end calendar: seven concerts (two of them free, during the noon hour), May 30-June 7, ...

Mozart’s final work, the powerful Requiem in D minor, has always been cloaked in mystery. The 35-year-old composer died before he could finish the work, and in the delirium of his final illness, he ...

An evening of well-played Mozart is like a balm to the soul — an instant antidote to a world of grim headlines and traffic jams. This doesn’t mean that Mozart’s music is unremittingly jolly; indeed, ...

Purely on grounds of performance alone, this is one of the finest Mozart Requiems of recent years. John Butt brings to Mozart the microscopic care and musicological acumen that have made his Bach and ...

Prom 26: Mozart's Requiem is the perfect expression of the Proms in a darker mood; a captivating evening of music redolent of love, loss and death. This was a wonderfully emotionally charged concert, ...

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