Mozart’s Requiem

Sunday, 26 October at 6 p.m.

Västerås Cathedral Motet Choir, Stockholm Concert Orchestra

Mozart’s Requiem is one of the most beloved and frequently performed works in the genre. The music carries an almost supernatural power – it grips the listener, touches the innermost soul and transports us to a world beyond the boundaries of time.

Mozart began composing his Requiem during the last year of his life, in 1791. The work was commissioned by Count Franz von Walsegg, who wanted to honour his deceased wife with a funeral mass – and at the same time appear as its composer. When Mozart passed away in December of that year, the work was still unfinished. Several composers attempted to complete the music, but it was Mozart’s student, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, who ultimately gave the work its final form.

The concert will also feature Seele, vergiss sie nicht, a shorter work by composer Peter Cornelius with lyrics by Friedrich Hebbel. The poem is about the importance of remembering the dead.

Västerås Cathedral Motet Choir
Stockholm Concert Orchestra
Soloists from MOMDU, the School of Music and Opera at Mälardalen University
Benjamin Åberg, conductor

Concert duration ≈ 1 hour
Buy tickets via nortic.se from 1 October. You can also buy tickets in the cathedral on Saturday 4 October between 11am and 1.15pm. If there are any seats left, you can buy tickets at the entrance from 90 minutes before the concert.