Oct. 25—In 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna. He was just weeks shy of his 36th birthday. The famed composer never finished his last commission — his "Requiem," his famous Mass for the dead ...

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 ...

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 ...

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