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Mozart Requiem
For our summer concert, the Bury Bach Choir performs one of the most well-known and best-loved choral works of the repertory: Mozart’s Requiem.
Mozart accepted the commission for the Requiem from a mysteriously anonymous patron in the summer of 1791. By the autumn Mozart was seriously ill and died on 5 December, having completed only half the work and sketched some of the rest. In urgent need of the remainder of the commissioning fee, Mozart’s widow Constanze secretly invited her husband’s pupil, Franz Süssmayr, to complete the score, which was then delivered to the patron with no mention of Süssmayr’s involvement! Despite the availability of several recent modern completions of Mozart’s Requiem, Süssmayr’s version remains the one most familiar to audiences. For this special performance, we are accompanied by two outstanding pianists, on one piano, performing the acclaimed four-hand piano version by Carl Czerny.
With the inclusion of Salieri’s short Coronation Te Deum (Antonio Salieri, a respected composer, was Mozart's contemporary), and some favourite arias from Mozart’s Da Ponte operas sung by our four wonderful soloists, this will be an occasion to enjoy and to remember – don’t miss it.
Mozart accepted the commission for the Requiem from a mysteriously anonymous patron in the summer of 1791. By the autumn Mozart was seriously ill and died on 5 December, having completed only half the work and sketched some of the rest. In urgent need of the remainder of the commissioning fee, Mozart’s widow Constanze secretly invited her husband’s pupil, Franz Süssmayr, to complete the score, which was then delivered to the patron with no mention of Süssmayr’s involvement! Despite the availability of several recent modern completions of Mozart’s Requiem, Süssmayr’s version remains the one most familiar to audiences. For this special performance, we are accompanied by two outstanding pianists, on one piano, performing the acclaimed four-hand piano version by Carl Czerny.
With the inclusion of Salieri’s short Coronation Te Deum (Antonio Salieri, a respected composer, was Mozart's contemporary), and some favourite arias from Mozart’s Da Ponte operas sung by our four wonderful soloists, this will be an occasion to enjoy and to remember – don’t miss it.
Saturday 7 June
St Mary’s Church, Honey Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 1RT
7.30pm-9.30pmTickets £25 reserved, £18 unreserved (half price for under-30s)
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