The nearly 900-year-old Austrian castle that was the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s hauntingly beautiful “Requiem,” the last composition he wrote before his death in 1791, is headed for the ...

The Mozart Requiem is a redoubtable piece of music, largely because it is not all Mozart's. Left unfinished at his death, the Requiem was completed by one Sussmayr on commission from Mozart's widow.

Copy of a portrait of Mozart from 1777 by Padre Martini of Bologna. The summer of 1791 saw Mozart hard at work on not one, but two operas. The Magic Flute was mostly complete by July when it was ...