It was in early July 1791 that an ‘unknown, gray stranger’ turned up at the composer’s door saying he represented someone who wanted a Requiem from Mozart on the understanding that he not seek to ...

Oct. 25—In 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna. He was just weeks shy of his 36th birthday. The famed composer never finished his last commission — his "Requiem," his famous Mass for ...

In 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna. He was just weeks shy of his 36th birthday. The famed composer never finished his last commission – his “Requiem,” his famous Mass for the dead.

The nearly 900-year-old Austrian castle that was the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s hauntingly beautiful “Requiem,” the last composition he wrote before his death in 1791, is headed ...

The Chorale, under the direction of Artistic Director Alan Zabriskie, will present “Requiem,” a choral masterpiece that Mozart composed in 1791 just a few months before his untimely death at ...

Although the ancient text of the mass for the dead is somber, Mozart’s music in this May Festival performance offered a message of hope. While Mozart lay on his deathbed composing his Requiem in ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) wrote his Requiem Mass in d minor, K. 626, in Vienna in late 1791, but he hadn’t finished it when he died on Dec. 5. The work was completed by Mozart’s student Franz ...

For its part, Hartford Symphony Orchestra is reuniting with the Hartford Chorale for a special performance of Mozart’s final ...

An ancient cemetery is a good setting to sort out fact from fiction around Mozart's death. In this Halloween edition of Mozart Snapshots, pianist Katie Mahan takes us to a cemetery in Salzburg ...

The nearly 900-year-old Austrian castle that was the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s hauntingly beautiful “Requiem,” the last composition he wrote before his death in 1791, is headed ...