Masterpiece Mozart
Requiem
- Mozart’s best known and most mysterious work
- except for the first four minutes, Mozart only sketched out fragments before his death in October 1791; these were completed by many authors
- the most performed version is by Mozart's assistant Franz Xaver Süßmayr, who chose to recycle the Requiem aeternam for the final section
- created during an exceptionally productive period, just after the masterpieces La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte
- Mozart feverishly composing on his deathbed, spurred on by a jealous Salieri, a scene reproduced by Pushkin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Peter Schaffer and recently deceased Miloš Forman in Amadeus, is actually nothing more than a myth
Programme
Five new masterpieces in 2018-2019
In season 18-19 the Concertgebouw presents five new Masterpieces: five highpoints of music history that you have to hear live at least once in your lifetime. Plus a comprehensive programme of participatory projects (in collaboration with Musica) and in-depth context activities.
