MusicAeterna
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musicAeterna is an orchestra and choir based in Saint Petersburg. The ensemble was founded by conductor Teodor Currentzis and is known for its historically informed performances and stylistic diversit
Teodor Currentzis and musicAeterna (2017)
musicAeterna choir performing Philippe Hersant's Tristia (2018)
Requiem (Mozart)
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The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a Requiem Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart composed part of the Requiem in Vienna in late 1791, but it was unfinished at his death on 5 December the same year
MusicAeterna
…January 31, 2005, performing works by Couperin, Tchaikovsky, Cavalieri, Ives, Bach, and Pärt alongside fragments from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Mozart's Requiem, and Brahms's German Requiem. Their first full opera production was Dido and Aeneas in March 2005. Early achievements included their international debut…
The first page of Mozart's autograph score
Drawing of Mozart in silverpoint, made by Dora Stock during Mozart's visit to Dresden, April 1789
The beginning of the Dies irae in the working manuscript started by Mozart, with Eybler's orchestration. In the upper right, Nissen has left a note: "Everything not circled with pencil is in Mozart's hand up to page 32." The first violin, choir and figured bass are entirely Mozart's.
Constanze in 1802, portrait by Hans Hansen