Mozart’s Requiem by Mozart, Fra (2025/2025), Dirigent Masato Suzuki, Masaaki Suzuki, Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, Spain

Mozart's Requiem is one of the most commented, performed and fascinating compositions of all time. It has evoked both admiration and controversy, with the composer himself dying in mid-composition. It was commissioned by Count Franz von Walsegg in summer 1791. Walsegg was an amateur musician who had composers write pieces for him that were later performed at Stuppach Castle as if they were his own. In this case, he wanted a funeral mass in memory of his wife, who had died on February 14 of that year. After Mozart died, at least four different hands intervened to finish it, but it was mainly Franz Xaver Süssmayr, one of his students, who completed it following the instructions of the composer and his widow