In Reply to: Totally agree posted by TGR on March 22, 2012 at 14:49:09:
I totally agree with you both. Even Mahler's 10th is far more complete than Mozart's Requiem (Mahler himself said it was completed "in the sketch"), and I've never understood the reluctance to perform a completed version of that but not the Requiem.
I guess the main reason is tradition, and the fact that Sussmayr was Mozart's assistant, not some scholar working 50 or 100 years later. But the Requiem was finished only because Mozart's widow Constanze desperately needed the money from the commission, and Sussmayr was willing to do it when others were not.
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- +2 - rbolaw 08:48:34 03/23/12 (3)
- RE: +2 - Thornhill 12:09:50 03/24/12 (2)
- RE: +2 - rbolaw 11:33:45 03/25/12 (1)
- Great points - TGR 17:29:05 03/25/12 (0)