Premieres Revisited: Mozart's Requiem

Few works are surrounded by more mystery than Mozart's final unfinished masterpiece, his Requiem in D minor, and it took centuries to unravel the myths surrounding it and the shadowy circumstances of its commission. That commissioner was eventually revealed to be Count von Walsegg, who wanted a work to commemorate his wife – and it was not until December 1793, two years after Mozart's death, that the work was finally performed, as planned, in her memory in the Neuklosterkirche in Wiener Neustadt. In December 2025, Andreas Ottensamer conducted a performance bringing the Requiem back to Wiener Neustadt and here presents that performance alongside discussion of this astonishing work.