Requiem de Mozart

Boléro is the most performed classical music piece in the world, with a performance every 15 minutes. When it was created, the composer had given the copyright to his gardener, without foreseeing its success with the general public. This work is the archetype of the ostinato. The melody is taken up in turn by the different instruments of the orchestra over a rhythmic pattern in the percussion.

MOZART'S REQUIEM

The particular circumstances of the commission of this work, and the somewhat tragic conditions of its writing, on the author's deathbed, fuel its legend. In July 1791, Count Walsegg-Stuppach, under the seal of secrecy, commissioned a Requiem from Mozart for his wife, who had died in February. The work was deferred until October, due to the overwork the composer was experiencing with La Clemenza di Tito and The Magic Flute. At Mozart's death, the Requiem remained an unfinished work. In the final phase of his illness, Mozart had written the entirety of the "Requiem aeternam": from the Kyrie to the Confutatis, only the vocal parts and the basso continuo were written. For the Lacrimosa, only the first eight measures of the voice and the first two measures of the violin and viola parts. Sketches of additional pieces have been lost. While he was bedridden, friends came to sing parts of the Requiem at his bedside.

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