MUSICAL JOURNEY (A) - AUSTRIA / BELGIUM: A Musical Visit to Salzburg and Vienna, Brussels and Tournai
Austria
Salzburg: Parish Church of St. Peter / Mozartplatz / Cathedral
Vienna: Army Museum (Heeresgeschichtliche Museum)
Vienna: Central Cemetery / Karl Lueger Memorial Church Army Museum
Salzkammergut: Dachstein Glacier and Landscape
Austria / Belgium
Wachau: Fortified Church of St Michael in the Wachau Valley / Musee Wiertz, Brussels / Musee des Beaux-Arts, Tournai
Austria
Vienna: Town Views / Salzburg: Church of St. Peter
Vienna: Town Hall and Karlskirche / Salzburg: Collegiate Church / Mozart on his Death-Bed
Gottweig: Abbey Church
Vienna: Composer's Monuments and History Museum
Linz: Cathedral
Salzkammergut: Wolfgangsee and Schafberg: Landscape
Vienna: National Library / Salzburg: St Sebastian Cemetery and Cathedral
Date of Production: 2015-08-17
Playing Time: 00:56:54
Catalogue Number: 2.110333 UPC: 747313533350
UPC: 747313533350
The Places
The tour relates to the life of Mozart, from his native Salzburg to his final precarious independence in Vienna. There are glimpses of the Salzburg Church of St. Peter and of the Cathedral, with which Mozart of his father, members of the musical establishment of the ruling Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg, were closely concerned. Memorials of Mozart and other composers are seen in Vienna, while a brief detour to Belgium to the idiosyncratic Musee Wiertz and to the Tournai Musee des Beaux Arts, brings another aspect to the journey.
The Music
Mozart's Requiem Mass was commissioned anonymously in July 1791 by Count Franz Walsegg zu Stuppach, who sought to commemorate the recent death of his wife by the performance of a work of this kind that he might, at least by implication, claim of his own. An initial fee of sixty ducats was paid, with promise of a further sum when when the Requiem was complete. But in November Mozart was taken ill and within a fortnight he was dead. His widow, Constanze, who needed the rest of the fee for the work, asked Joseph Eybler, who has assisted Mozart in rehearsals for Cosi fan tutte, to finish the composition and the scoring. He later gave up the task and the unfinished score finally came into the hands of Franz Xaver Sussmayr, so that the best known form of the Requiem is that started by Mozart, continued briefly by Eybler and completed by Sussmayr.
