Requiem - W.A. Mozart

All events for the second half of the 2020–2021 season are still planned, but cannot currently be booked. Advance ticket sales have been interrupted. The current experience with the coronavirus pandemic has shown us that in the event of strong demand (above the currently permitted 500 guests), advance sales can only be expanded once the official approval has been given to open the hall accordingly. We will continue to publish or confirm the final program six weeks before the scheduled event.

Though it remained unfinished, Mozart’s Requiem is one of the most influential scores of music history. By integrating Gregorian chorales and Handelian fugue themes into his music, the composer was a forerunner of nineteenth-century historicism. At the time, the work was regularly performed at large social events, having a lasting effect on the image of Mozart during this period. The instrumentation that included basset horns but no flutes, oboes, or horns anticipated the reduced orchestral scorings of composers like Stravinsky. Mozart thus created a masterpiece that continually radiated its influence toward the future and whose power and emotional poignancy still take our breath away today.