Mozart: Requiem

Mozart: Requiem

• Harmonia Mundi
• Classical

1791 was a busy year for Mozart. Already working on Die Zauberflöte, and under deadline to deliver La Clemenza di Tito, he received a commission for a Requiem. The colorful story of what happened next is well known. Mozart's untimely death left the Requiem unfinished. After several composers were approached, it was finally completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, a copyist and composer who was working with Mozart on his opera commissions. Over time Süssmayr's version was accepted as the closest to Mozart's intentions, but it lacked in many ways. In 2016, a young French composer, Pierre-Henri Dutron, persuaded René Jacobs to perform his own revision of Süssmayr's Requiem completion. This new version was performed for audiences in a series of five concerts around Europe and was met with widespread acclaim. harmonia mundi is proud to present the world premiére studio recording of this version, featuring the Freiburger Barockorchester led by RenéJacobs. A bonus DVD is included.