• Fassung Franz Beyer
• New edition from Edition Kunzelmann from 2005/6

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem , his last work, which he left unfinished, remained shrouded in legend for a long time before the darkness surrounding its origin was lifted. Mozart sets music to the texts of the requiem mass, commissioned by Count Franz von Walsegg-Stuppach from Austria. The transcript seems like a shocking document of the serious illness that eventually took Mozart away. In anticipation of the imminent, early end of life, a wealth and depth of thoughts flowed into the Requiem, placing this work in the first rank of the masterpieces of musical literature.

In view of the well-known weaknesses of Süssmayr's version and encouraged by many leading practitioners, above all Bruno Walter, Prof. Franz Beyer (Munich) undertook years of effort to present a new instrumentation of the movements that Mozart had not completed. The result is a more transparent sound that is closely based on the movement of the other works from Mozart's last creative period. Such an attempt is possible today thanks to precise knowledge of Mozart's entire oeuvre, and it is justified by a lively examination of Mozart's last great work.