Vinyl Record
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem on 2LP vinyl. A 1791 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
2LP ยท 1791
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 1791 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Mozart's Requiem is the unfinished 1791 work that turned the composer's final year into one of classical music's most enduring dramas. Written in D minor and left incomplete at his death, it carries two histories at once: the liturgical shape of a Mass for the dead, and the human fascination with a composer writing toward a silence he did not live to close. That tension is why the piece has survived beyond legend. The Introit and Kyrie establish gravity with choral architecture rather than theatrical display; Dies irae and Rex tremendae bring judgment into the room; Lacrimosa remains devastating because it feels suspended between completion and disappearance; later completions preserve the work's performable life while reminding the listener that the original act was interrupted. On vinyl, the Requiem asks for attention across long choral lines, solo voices, orchestra and space, making it one of the most powerful classical works to place in a collection built around mortality, mystery and form.
The Requiem matters because it is both a central sacred work and a boundary object in Mozart's story: music shaped by ritual, death, unfinished authorship and later stewardship. Its emotional force does not depend on myth alone; the writing itself makes grief sound architectural.
For collectors, Mozart's Requiem is a classical shelf anchor, especially for listeners who want choral music with historical gravity and immediate emotional impact. It rewards comparison between performances, but any serious collection benefits from having the work available as a complete listening experience.
Sacred classical drama with chorus, vocal soloists, orchestra, dark D-minor weight, fugal discipline, sudden terror, solemn lyricism and an atmosphere of unfinished finality.
Recommended for: Classical listeners building a core sacred-music shelf; Collectors drawn to late Mozart and unfinished masterworks; Fans of choral music with solemn scale and dramatic contrast.
When did Mozart compose the Requiem? Mozart worked on the Requiem in 1791, the final year of his life. Was Mozart's Requiem completed by Mozart himself? No. Mozart died before finishing it, and the work is commonly heard in a completed performing version shaped after his death. Why is Lacrimosa so famous? Lacrimosa is famous for its intense mourning character and for its place near the point where Mozart's own completed writing breaks off.