Concert of Puccini and Mozart

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Grange Choral Society - concert of Puccini and Mozart

Grange Choral will perform Puccini's "Messa di Gloria" and Mozart's Requiem. Conducted by Simon Earl, with orchestra and soloists.

Composed as his graduation exercise from the Istituto Musicale Pacini, Puccini's MESSA DI GLORIA had its first performance in Lucca on July 12, 1880. Although well received at the time, it was not performed again until 1952 (first in Chicago and then in Naples) and is now a staple of the choral repertoire.

Mozart composed part of his REQUIEM in Vienna in late 1791, but it was unfinished at his death on 5 December the same year. A completed version dated 1792 by Franz Xaver Süssmayr was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg, who had commissioned the piece for a requiem service on 14 February 1792, to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of his wife Anna at the age of 20. The autographed manuscript shows the finished and orchestrated Introit in Mozart's hand, with drafts of the Kyrie and the Dies Irae sequence as far as the first eight bars of the Lacrymosa movement, as well as the Offertory. Süssmayr may have depended on now lost "scraps of paper" for the remainder; he later claimed the Sanctus and Benedictus and the Agnus Dei as his own.

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