Video Information

• Choir: Downtown Voices
• Piece: Mozart Requiem
• Composer:  Mozart
• Arranger:  Levinn
• Conductor:  Stephen Sands
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: Classical
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final composition, Requiem, was finished after his death by his student Franz Xaver Süssmayr. According to his wife, Constanze Mozart, the ailing composer had come to believe he was writing the piece, initially commissioned by a ...  moreWolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final composition, Requiem, was finished after his death by his student Franz Xaver Süssmayr. According to his wife, Constanze Mozart, the ailing composer had come to believe he was writing the piece, initially commissioned by a German count, to be played at his own funeral — and indeed some sections were. Requiem was later performed at the funerals and commemorative services of Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, and Frédéric Chopin.
  
  Centuries later in 1960, “scraps of paper” containing Mozart’s unrealized ideas were discovered, prompting new versions of the Requiem.
  
  Mozart Requiem
  Robert Levin edition
  
  Downtown Voices
  The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
  NOVUS NY
  Stephen Sands, conductor
  
  Sonya Headlam, soprano
  Pamela Terry, mezzo-soprano
  David Vanderwal, tenor
  Neil Netherly, bass
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