Listen / It’s almost time for one of Roger Wiesmeyer’s musical traditions: celebrating Mozart’s birthday with a celebratory concert.
Who Wrote Mozart’s Requiem?
It’s one of the great masterworks of Western music, complete with an achingly great backstory: the genius composer who’d set aside all sacred music for years wrote a funeral mass while lying on his own deathbed after receiving a commission from a mysterious patron. According to the movie Amadeus, Mozart dictated the music, already fully […]
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