Franz Count von Walsegg (January 17, 1763 - November 11, 1827), living on Stuppach castle near Gloggnitz, was the aristocrat who, in 1791, sent a messenger to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to commission a requiem mass. Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca Year 1763 ( MDCCLXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Year 1827 ( MDCCCXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Gloggnitz is a mountain town in the Neunkirchen district of Lower Austria, Austria. Year 1791 ( MDCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Requiem (from Latin requiem, accusative case of requies, rest or Requiem Mass (informally a funeral Mass also known formally (in Latin as the The count, apparently an amateur musician, had a penchant for commissioning works from composers of the day and then passing those works off as his own in private performances. Walsegg intended to have the requiem performed (as his own composition) in memory of his young wife, Anna, who died on February 14, 1791 at the age of twenty. The grieving Count Walsegg, only 28 himself at the time, would never remarry.
Although Mozart died before completing the requiem, Mozart's wife arranged for one of Mozart's friends, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, to complete the work in order to gain the remainder of the sum Walsegg had promised. The Requiem Mass in D minor ( K 626 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in 1791 Constanze Mozart (born Constanze Weber) ( 5 January 1762 in Zell im Wiesental, Germany &ndash 6 March 1842 Franz Xaver Süßmayr (Franz Xaver Suessmayr 1766 in Schwanenstadt – September 17 1803 in Vienna) was an Austrian Composer.
Franz Count von Walsegg is sometimes erroneously referenced as Count Walsegg-Stuppach.
References
- Bernard Jacobson (1995) Catholic with Masonic Overtones (insert in Sacred Music, CD#18 of the Best of the Complete Mozart Edition), Philips: Germany
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