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17 December

When Franz Schubert died in Vienna in 1828, he left behind several manuscripts of symphonies: works unpublished, and in some cases unperformed during his short lifetime. Nobody seemed much interested in these, even ten years later, when Schubert's posthumous fame was on the rise. Both Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann did what they could to help promote Schubert's symphonies, but it wasn't until today's date in 1865-37 years after Schubert's death-that his most famous Symphony received its premiere performance in his home town of Vienna.
This Symphony in B minor came to be called the "Unfinished," since its manuscript score contained only two completely finished movements. A normal Viennese Symphony of Schubert's time should contain four movements, and, in fact, a fairly complete piano sketch of the third movement exists, as does a full score of just the first nine measures of that same movement.
When Johann van Herbeck conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in the first performance in 1865, he played the two surviving movements and tacked on the last movement of Schubert's Third Symphony as a finale. More recently, some scholars have argued that this music, a portion of Schubert's "Rosamunde" incidental music, was in fact the missing final movement of his symphony.

Despite these attempts to finish the "Unfinished," most performers and audiences seem content to hear the score as Schubert left it-romantically cut short, just like the composer's tragically short life. 
from American Composers Forum 

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Requiem

Wednesday, December 10

Mozart's "Requiem" premieres in Vienna

Wolfgang Mozart died on December 5, 1791, leaving behind an unfinished Requiem Mass, commissioned anonymously by Count Franz von Walsegg, a 28-year-old Austrian nobleman who had the ignoble habit of passing off works he commissioned as his own. The Requiem was intended to be a memorial to the Count's 20-year-old wife, Anna, who had died earlier that year.

Mozart's wife Constanza arranged for some of Mozart's pupils to complete the unfinished score, and eventually delivered it to Count Walsegg in order to receive the full commission fee promised her husband.

But just five days after Mozart's death in 1791, the portions of the Requiem that Mozart himself had completed were sung at a memorial service organized by his friend and collaborator Emanuel Schikaneder.

Schikaneder was the librettist for Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute," and ran his own opera house at the Theater auf der Wieden in a Viennese suburb. It was there that Mozart's "Magic Flute" had premiered, and it was Schikaneder's musicians who performed parts of Mozart's Requiem for the first time on today's date in 1791, at St. Michael's Church in the center of Vienna.

Lili Kraus, a 20th century Hungarian concert pianist closely associated with Mozart's music, said of his Requiem Mass, "There is no feeling-human or cosmic, no depth, no height the human spirit can reach-that is not contained in his music."

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