What do you think about Mozarts Requiem?!


Question: What do you think about Mozarts Requiem!?
I personally get the sense of a being at the end of you life and ur now about to face judgmentWww@Enter-QA@Com


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Requiem in D min!. K!.626 was Mozart’s last composition; he died on Dec!. 5 1791, the day after completing the Dies Irae, leaving the work unfinished!. The french writer Stendhal, in Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio (1815), created the myth of a mysterious commission to a sick and broke Mozart by an unknown person who wanted the Requiem done in 4 weeks!. Stendhal’s hypothesis was that M!. tried to discover who the guy was, but as he coildn’t find out, he began to think that would be a special ghastly commission for his own funeral!.
After more insistence anf more money offered, M!. died of a kidney failure!. It is clear today that the mysterious person was Count Franz Walsegg-Stuppach, a widower willing to celebrate his dead wife!. No mention is to be made to the other foolish legend regarding homicide by ‘rival’ Antonio Salieri (coming from Aleksander Pu?kin, Mozart and Salieri,1830)!. Mozart’s widow, Constanze, delegated completion to 3 M!.’s pupils: Joseph Eybler, Franz Freist?dler and finally (1800), Franz Xaver Suessmayr, the most relevant one!. The Requiem was first played at a function organized by M!.’s friend Emanuel Schikaneder on Dec, 10!. It shows supreme dramatic sense (like the ‘Lacrimosa’) along with extremely classical structures, like the rigorous fugue of the Kyrie!. A wonderful blending of both approaches is to be found in the Tuba Mirum , where the 4 solo voices, separately and later together, express the drama and majesty of final judgement!.
As usual, M!. didn’t have scruples in finding and including other music into his works!. The Introitus is taken from Haendel’s "Funeral anthem for Her Most Sacred Majestry Queen Caroline and the Kyrie is similar to aria "And his strips will be healed" from "Messiah" again by Haendel (2 years before Mozart staged a new orchestral version of Messiah)!. Mozart only wrote entirely the Introitus and the first 8 bars of Lacrimosa!. He only wrote the vocal parts from Kyrie to Hostias and the orchestration was by Suessmayr!.
I know you are interested in personal impressions, and I didn't want to bother you with a list of facts you surely know in detail, but I find it necessary to take a very objective stance, when confronted to an objective masterpiece!. Let's stick to the facts!. That was Mozart, for good or bad: classical and dramatic, like in the last piano concertos, in the last 2 symphonies!. My humble opinion is that K!.626, Homer's Iliad and Einstein's General Theory of Relativity are the top expression of human brain during history!. On an objective basis!. What I sense when listening to it is irrelevant and too subjective to deserve any mention!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

It is without doubt his greatest ever work; perhaps the greatest piece of work in all music!?
I listened to it almost religiously in my early twenties, and I can testify to it being truly inspired!. One only wonders what it would have been like had Mozart himself been allowed to finish it!. Fortunately he, unlike Bruckner whose last great symphony was left unfinished, had it completed by his friends!. I don't agree with people criticizing the version we have been given!. To me the spirit of Mozart shines through here like in no other piece of his!. He knew he was dying, and he actually describes through his music the experience of being in the presence of death and of God like no one had done up to that time and - perhaps - no one has done since!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

good question

honestly I'd say I love Mozart, his my 2nd favorite composer (next to Bach)
but as for Requiem I just find it kinda annoying when he mixes a passes minor and major here and there
if it's a piece of music in minor, then keep it all minor
if it's in major, then stay in major, at least for enough period of time

I'm not saying i'm like the ultimate correct judgement on his music,
maybe I'm just too simple of a guy for sophisiticated music

peace!Www@Enter-QA@Com

A fantastic piece that should never be arranged!.

Here's a good example of fantastic musicianship "Gone Wild"

http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=Aqpjf65Fp!.!.!.

It might bring Mozart back from the dead to smack these guys in the head!.Www@Enter-QA@Com



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