Mozart's Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies, Documents, Score

by Christoph Wolff

Book Overview

Mozart's unfinished Requiem has long been shrouded in mystery. Mozart undertook the commission for an Austrian nobleman, little knowing that he was to write a requiem for himself. Inevitably, the secrecy surrounding the anonymous commission, the circumstances of Mozart's death, the unfinished state of the work, and its completion under the direction of Mozart's widow, Constanze, have precipitated two centuries of romantic speculation and scholarly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520213890
• ISBN13: 9780520213890
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.8"