Mozart and his contro- versial Requiem

Mozart’s Requiem was uncompleted at the time of his death in 1791.

Another Austrian composer, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, completed it the following year. There was something of an outcry about the Requiem, not its composition but its commissioning. This was by Count Franz von Walsegg, an amateur musician who sought to try and pass it off as his own work.

There has also long been debate as to how much of the Requiem Mozart actually composed as well as a theory that Mozart came to believe that he was writing a Requiem for his own funeral. An intriguing work, one might suggest, and it is being performed in Inca by the Orquestra Acadèmia 1830, Coral Càrmina de Barcelona and soloists.