Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem Mass in D minor
(KV 626)
Friday, November 11, 8pm
Saturday, November 12, 8pm
Belk Theater
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center
Christopher Warren-Green, conducting
Christina Pier, soprano
Amanda Crider, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Cooley, tenor
Christòpheren Nomura, baritone
Also on the program: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 41
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed the Requiem Mass in D minor (K. 626) in Vienna in 1791. It was left unfinished at the composer's death and thus has become one of the most enigmatic pieces of music composed - mostly because of the myths and controversies surrounding it. Franz Xaver Süssmayr completed the score and deliverd it to Count Franz von Walsegg. Walsegg had anonymously commissioned the Requiem Mass to commemorate the anniversary of his wife's death. Already in ill health by the time he took the commission, Mozart confided to his wife that he felt certain he was writing the piece for his own funeral.
