Mozart’s Requiem is a work of great drama and emotional depth. It features some of Mozart's most powerful and innovative choral writing, evoking a range of emotions from solemn and somber to gentle moments of comfort and peace. Adding to its enduring legacy are the circumstances of the work: it was commissioned by a "mysterious and anonymous stranger," but Mozart fell ill while composing the Requiem and died at age 35 before finishing the composition. He is said to have remarked on "feeling as if he were writing his own death music," a premonition which proved sadly true. 

We will perform the version completed by his pupil, Franz Xaver Süssmayr. Although there have been significant recompositions by modern musicologists, Süssmayr’s is the only completed performance version of the work contemporaneous to the composer.

A professional orchestra of 25 musicians will join the MWV Choral Society in presenting the Requiem. The orchestra, performing on original instruments of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, will also perform Mozart's 39th Symphony in E Flat Major, providing a rare chance locally to hear Mozart's music as it would have sounded in the composer's own time.

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