Mozart - Requiem in re minore K. 626

The Requiem was commissioned from Mozart by an unknown person in the summer of 1791, while he was busy composing the singspiel The Magic Flute , based on a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. Upon accepting the commission, he enthusiastically began composing the work but was never able to complete it; in fact, he died just a few months later, on the very day he finished the “Confutatis maledictis,” December 5, 1791. His wife entrusted the completion of the work to Franz Xaver Sussmayr, a student and friend of Mozart’s.


I INTROITUS REQUIEM aeternam
II Kyrie
III SEQUENTIA
DIES IRAE
Tuba mirum
Rex tremendae
Recordare
Confutatis
Lacrimosa
IV OFFERTORIUM
Domine Jesu
Hostias
V SANCTUS
VI BENEDICTUS
VII AGNUS DEI
VIII COMMUNIO
Lux aeterna