Requiem in Full Score Reprint of the Academic Press

Reprint of the Academic Press

But of even greater consequence was his remarkable magnum opus

everyday occurrences

set well apart

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Requiem in Full Score Reprint of the Academic PressThe Requiem was not only one of Mozart's most inspired works, it was one of his last. It was commissioned in the summer of 1791 to memorialize the deceased wife of Count Walsegg Stuppach, an amateur musician who was in the habit of ordering works from composers and presenting them as his own compositions. But his dubious patronage arrived only weeks before the rapid decline in Mozart's health that would end in the composer's death by the year's end.