The composition of the Requiem is surrounded by anecdotes and legends. Mozart’s student Franz Xaver Süßmayr completed the unfinished work after Mozart’s death. But in musical terms, the work offers far more than mere anecdotes: Mozart’s choral writing, at the height of his art, presents singers with harmonically challenging passages and thrilling fugues. If you master this, there’s great enjoyment to be had from singing the work, despite its subject matter ...

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