
1791 – Mozart’s final year – saw the composition of the “Magic Flute”, the Clarinet Concerto and the Requiem, three of his most important and still unsurpassed works. Following the premiere of “The Magic Flute” in September, Mozart wrote the Clarinet Concerto, which was his last completed instrumental work, while the Requiem remained unfinished and was completed by Mozart’s student Joseph Eybler and Süssmayr. John Butt and his fabulous Dunedin Consort, who presented in Verden in 2012 Handel’s “Messiah” now present Mozart’s Requiem following David Black’s new edition published in 2013. The Mozart scholar has evaluated unknown sources and tried to approach the first performance of the work that had taken place even before the official premiere on December 14, 1793 On the 2nd of January of that year in Vienna. Experience Mozart’s Requiem has in this new alternative version, which has already won a Gramophone Award and received a Grammy nomination – a discovery!






