
he beautiful and haunting Requiem Mass
in D minor (K.626) is one of Mozart’s greatest
musical works – and his last. It carries with it much speculation and myth, making it a music history mystery.
By the time Mozart completed the Magic Flute in September of 1791, his health was bad, but he was intrigued, and a little fearful, by the request for the Requiem and obsessively started to work on it. As his condition continued to deteriorate, he believed he had been cursed to write a requiem for himself, convinced he was about to die.
After his death in December of the same year, Mozart's masterpiece remained incomplete. Various manuscripts of the Requiem turned up in the 19th century, with many composers leaving ambiguous statements as to how they were involved in completing the work. Despite the mystery of who may have written what, Beethoven said it best, “If Mozart did not write the music, then the man who wrote it was a Mozart.”
Whether these stories are true or just another inflated myth, the Requiem is believed by many to be Mozart's final masterpiece, that gradually, sucked the life out of it's creator.
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Mozart's Requiem
A story in D Minor
