Piano: Requiem in D Minor, Dies Irae, By W. A. Mozart by Samuel Ricke
The catalog entry credits Samuel Ricke for a piano arrangement of the Dies irae from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K. 626. The original Dies irae belongs to a Latin choral and orchestral mass, not to a piano composition written by Mozart. Mozart began the Requiem in Vienna late in 1791 and left it unfinished at his death. The received completion is principally associated with his pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr, although modern editions and the surviving fragment preserve a more complicated compositional history. A piano reduction can make the sequence's force legible at one keyboard, but it necessarily changes the choral and orchestral texture. The catalog credit identifies the arrangement layer; it does not transfer Süssmayr's completion or Mozart's authorship to Samuel Ricke.
About Piano: Requiem in D Minor, Dies Irae, By W. A. Mozart
The catalog entry credits Samuel Ricke for a piano arrangement of the Dies irae from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K. 626. The original Dies irae belongs to a Latin choral and orchestral mass, not to a piano composition written by Mozart.
Mozart began the Requiem in Vienna late in 1791 and left it unfinished at his death. The received completion is principally associated with his pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr, although modern editions and the surviving fragment preserve a more complicated compositional history.
A piano reduction can make the sequence's force legible at one keyboard, but it necessarily changes the choral and orchestral texture. The catalog credit identifies the arrangement layer; it does not transfer Süssmayr's completion or Mozart's authorship to Samuel Ricke.