

This new vocal score includes a revised piano reduction: The old Moehn piano reduction has been maintained, but corrected and uncluttered on the whole the new piano reduction is easier to read and to play.This means that you can rehearse and perform this work with some singers using this new edition and some the old Bärenreiter edition. The pagination has been adopted from the previous edition.The vocal score has been newly engraved with a generous layout.What makes the revised vocal score so special?

Minor corrections have been made to the musical text, the vocal parts have been made easier to read and the piano accompaniment easier to play.Ĭhristoph Wolff, an authoritative Requiem connoisseur has supplied a Foreword with a clear and concise account of the work’s genesis and its musical features. The completed Requiem score, published in the New Mozart Edition, serves as the basis for this vocal score edition which now appears in a revised form and newly engraved. The completion of the fragmentary score by his assistant Franz Xaver Süssmayr, who helped him with The Magic Flute, has the character of a historical source with utmost closeness to Mozart’s thoughts.
