Mozart Requiem (Duncan Druce Completion)
Wellington High School's Riley CentreWellington
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About this show
Kāpiti Chorale and Capital Choir join forces with orchestra and soloists for a powerful performance of Mozart's final masterpiece.When Mozart died in 1791 at the age of 35, he left the Requiem unfinished. Within months, his student Franz Xaver Süssmayr completed the work on behalf of Mozart's widow Constanze. His version became one of the most famous and beloved works in the choral repertoire and remains the version most often performed today.Yet Mozart's surviving sketches continued to raise questions. For more than 200 years, composers and scholars have revisited them, searching for clues to how Mozart himself intended to complete the work.This concert presents one of the most fascinating answers to that question: the Duncan Druce completion. Created in 1984 by the English composer, performer and musicologist Duncan Druce, it draws on Mozart's surviving manuscript while revisiting parts of the traditional completion.…
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