TALK – Mozart Requiem but still no peace

Mozart Requiem but still no peace

Nicholas Kenyon

Mozart’s final, unfinished Requiem is one of the great choral works of the 18th century, but full of puzzles and clues as to what the composer intended. In the week Jane Glover conducts the Requiem, writer and critic Nicholas Kenyon explores the strange story behind its commissioning and its subsequent history.