Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem K.626: Voice: Vocal Score

Mozarts fragment in the version completed by Joseph Eybler und Franz Xaver Süßmayr-Requiem K.626 The Requiem completed by Franz Xaver S?ssmayr in its traditional form.Mozart’s final work the Requiem K.626 was left incomplete and it is fraught with questions and emotions: the expressive depth of its music sorrow at the great composer’s early death truth and legend fragments and attempts to complete the work.The completion of the fragmentary score by his assistant Franz Xaver S?ssmayr who helped him with The Magic Flute has the character of a historical source with utmost closeness to Mozart’s thoughts.- Urtext of the New MozartEdition- Full score (BA4538-01) performance material (BA4538) vocal score (BA4538-90) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP152) available for sale- Facsimile edition BVK2346

Vocal Score Large Print-The story of the composition of Mozart's Requiem has a strange fabulous quality that is entirely typical of the events of his life. Whether we are considering his amazing exploits and achievements as a youthful virtuoso and maestro or the depth of his financial misfortunes in Vienna in the late 1780s there is little that is mundane about the main biographical facts.It comes as no surprise then to find that these facts have often been coloured and embroidered to enhance their emotional effect and to create a legend about this most remarkable musician. The simple story of the genesis of the Requiem is in itself striking - that in the last weeks of his lifeMozart was working on a Mass for the Dead that this work was the result of an anonymous commission and that the commissioner's envoy in order to avoid giving an address paid Mozart several unannounced visits like a messenger from another world - this story can easily be filled out with portents and hints of the supernatural.Even the account by Franz Niemetscheki (first published in 1798 based on information given by Mozart's widow Constanze and later receiving 'official' approval by being incorporated into the Mozart biography by Constanze's second husband Georg von Nissen) writes of the commissioner's agent appearing 'like a ghost' and Friedrich Rochlitz's account goes much further in suggesting that the composer was possessed by a demoniac and feverish desire to complete the Requiem and conscious of approaching doom

Requiem K.626 The Requiem completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr in its traditional form. Mozart’s final work the Requiem K.626 was left incomplete and it is fraught with questions and emotions: the expressive depth of its music sorrow at the great composer’s early death truth and legend fragments and attempts to complete the work. The completion of the fragmentary score by his assistant Franz Xaver Süssmayr who helped him with The Magic Flute has the character of a historical source with utmost closeness to Mozart’s thoughts. - Urtext of the New MozartEdition - Full score (BA4538-01) performance material (BA4538) vocal score (BA4538-90) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP152) available for sale - Facsimile edition BVK2346

The Requiem was Mozart’s final composition. It was commissioned by the widow of the Countess von Walsegg who died in February 1791. After working on the Requiem through October and November however Mozart fell ill and died without completing it. Mozart's widow needing money asked Joseph Eybler to complete the work. Unfortunately he could not finish the work and it was handed over to Franz Xaver Sussmayr. However Sussmayr was a musician of limited capabilities and much of his contribution was in fact a copy of Eybler's work.This new edition of Mozart's Requiem starts afresh from Mozart's incomplete autograph and uses none of Eybler or Sussmayr'scontributions. The orchestration has been reworked throughout using parts of Die Zauberflote and La Clemenza di Tito as the chief models.

KV 626-Hardback facsimile; Half-leather binding; 235 pages - 24 4 x 33 0 cm.Mozart???s Requiem: Truth and Legend.Facsimile of the autograph score held in the Austrian National Library with a foreword/introduction by Christoph Wolf.Mozart???s ???Requiem??? is fraught with questions and emotions: the expressive depth of its music sorrow at the great composer???s early death truth and legend fragments and attempts to complete the work.The surviving manuscript reflects its dramatic history: Mozart???s handwriting often appears on the same page as inscriptions by S?ssmayr and others. One corner of a pagewith Mozart???s final musical thoughts was later stolen but an old photograph bears witness to it.This high-quality new facsimile presents each page individually trimmed to convey a vivid impression of the original.Besides a detailed description of the manuscript by G?nter Brosche the volume contains a Foreword by Christoph Wolff depicting the work???s genesis.Barenreiter Facsimilie:The seal is used exclusively for facsimile editions published by B?renreiter which meet the highest demands in both scholarly and technical terms.The distinguishing features include:A facsimile in high-quality colour printingScholarly commentaryAttractive cover design

How practical! Mozart's 'Requiem' is now appearing in this handy soft-cover and affordable full score to complement the substantial linen-bound complete edition volume.The tried and tested musical text of the 'Requiem' remains the same whilst the Foreword has been revised and supplemented by an English translation.- The tried-and-tested content of the complete edition volume now in a soft-cover score- Foreword in German and now also in English