Amadeus Mozart

Just before his death, Mozart began work on the Requiem funeral mass.

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He did not manage to complete this work. In the manuscript, the last notes put by his hand fall on the 8th bar of the Lacrimosa vocal parts. At the request of Mozart's wife, the work was completed by his composer friends Joseph Eybler and Franz Xaver Sussmayr.