There is mystery and intrigue, a whole “dark and stormy night” thing in the story of how Mozart came to compose his Requiem in D minor, his final work before he died young at the age of 35. But there ...

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 ...

SWARTHMORE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- For the first time in four years, the Chester Children's Chorus will perform Mozart's Requiem this weekend. But this time the maestro will be different -- the ...

Most performances of Mozart’s Requiem are exactly what Headlam described: an act of imagination. They include portions of the work completed not by Mozart, who died before finishing it, but rather by ...

Bach’s Six Brandenburg Concertos are widely regarded as some of the finest compositions of the Baroque period. Each virtuosic concerto is crafted with a unique combination of instruments, showcasing ...

Luther College’s music department presents the biennial spring oratorio concert, featuring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s monumental masterpiece, Requiem in D minor, KV 626, at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April ...

Thomas Søndergård has been the Minnesota Orchestra’s music director for 15 months now, but not since his debut concerts in the fall of 2023 — when the buildings and bridges of downtown Minneapolis ...

Andrew Crust will close his first season as music director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra with Mozart’s Requiem, a masterpiece largely considered the composer’s last word. “For me, I think the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – In music as in most other areas of life, it’s possible to have too much of a good thing. Case in point: this week’s Cleveland Orchestra program. Consistency is a virtue, but when it ...

The Saint Joseph Symphony is joining forces with the Benedictine College Chamber Singers and the Saint Joseph Community Chorus to bring residents an evening of music, legend and mystery. The groups ...