requiem. Later in November he was ill and confined to bed; some apparent improvement on December 3 was not sustained, and on December 5 he died. “Severe miliary fever” was the certified cause; later, “rheumatic inflammatory fever” was named. Otherdiagnoses, taking account of Mozart’s ...
Mozart knew he was suffering from a possibly fatal illness when he began work on his Requiem mass in October 1791. The anonymous commission seemed a bad omen, but Mozart cracked on and had drafted around half of the score (to the middle of the Lacrimosa) by the time of his death in ...
In the openingRequiem aeternamStutzmann made much of the hairpin dynamics; with sharply accentuated rhythms and growls from the black-coated trombones (who cut through the textures of theLacrimosamagnificently) underpinning the body of sound, the entreaties to the Lord in theKyriemade a confident s...
Special publication issued on the occasion of the acquisition of the autograph fair copy of the piano-vocal score of Ein Deutsches Requiem by the Brahms-Institut, Lübeck. Includes halftones of four pages from the ms: title page, and one page each from movements I, V, & VII. Contributions ...