Aimee Vilcins

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Requiem I Confutatis

• Mozart

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• This Requiem
• unfinished
• Franz Sussmayr
• powerful piece of music
• Requiem
• many movements
• each corresponding to a section of the mass

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• 2 musical ideas with contrasting themes and
  contrasting words
• Angelic treble voices
• singing voca, voca me
• Male voices
• confutatis
• answered by the treble voices
• Voices join in a calmer oro supplex

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• Mozart
• musical family
• his genius was obvious when he was still a
  toddler
• Europe royalty
• composed little pieces for keyboard and strings
• Teenager
• published many pieces
• written his first symphonies

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• Hundreds of great masterpieces
• Symphonies
• Opera
• Concertos
• chamber music
• solo works

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• Amadeus
• Salieri
• No such thing actually happened
• A sinister hooded figure appeared at his door and
  offered to pay Mozart to write his pieces
• Mozart was very ill at that time
• Very poor

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• Buried in a unmarked paupers greave
• 33 years
• left the world a treasure of great music

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