Requiem K. 626

Hardback facsimile; Half-leather binding; 235 pages - 24,4 x 33,0 cm.

Mozart’s Requiem: Truth and Legend.

Facsimile of the autograph score held in the Austrian National Library with a foreword/introduction by Christoph Wolf.

Mozart’s “Requiem” is fraught with questions and emotions: the expressive depth of its music, sorrow at the great composer’s early death, truth and legend, fragments and attempts to complete the work.

The surviving manuscript reflects its dramatic history: Mozart’s handwriting often appears on the same page as inscriptions by Süssmayr and others. One corner of a pagewith Mozart’s final musical thoughts was later stolen, but an old photograph bears witness to it.

This high-quality new facsimile presents each page individually trimmed to convey a vivid impression of the original.

Besides a detailed description of the manuscript by Günter Brosche, the volume contains a Foreword by Christoph Wolff depicting the work’s genesis.

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• A facsimile in high-quality colour printing
• Scholarly commentary
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