Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: |Requiem in D minor KV 626

Mozart and the Thomanerchor Leipzig (St Thomas’s Boys Choir): a not-unusual liaison. In 1789, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart hears the ensemble perform at St Thomas Leipzig. He is inspired by Bach’s motet “Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied”, and asks for the music to be sent to him. Only five years after the death of the young composer, in 1796 Johann Adam Hiller, then cantor at St Thomas, performs Mozart’s Requiem with the church’s famous choir. Mozart had worked on his Requiem to the very end. On the occasion of Mozart’s anniversary in 2006, a new recording of his Requiem was produced by an exceptional cast: the Thomanerchor Leipzig (St Thomas’s Boys Choir Leipzig) and the Gewandhausorchester (Gewandhaus Orchestra) are joined by renowned soloists under the baton of the present cantor at St Thomas, Georg Christoph Biller.