Music of the Baroque illuminates Mozart's Requiem

Mozart's gloriously cryptic Requiem in D Minor seems to thrive on its own muddled history. Music of the Baroque's music director Jane Glover writes in her scholarly but popular book Mozart's Women that the composer labored over his magnum opus with his own funeral in mind. Others scholars are understandably more skeptical, arguing that the Requiem as a final Mozartian prayer is too conveniently allegorical.

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