Mozart Requiem to mark 235 years since composer's death
By Zak Jackson, MonacoViews Editorial
Monaco Cathedral will host sixty musicians and around a hundred singers on 29 October for a performance of Mozart's Requiem in D minor.
On 29 October, Monaco Cathedral will stage a performance of Mozart's Requiem in D minor to mark 235 years since the composer's death in 1791. The concert brings together an orchestra of sixty musicians alongside a choir of roughly a hundred singers, filling the cathedral's nave with one of the most performed works in the classical repertoire.
The Requiem, left unfinished at Mozart's death and completed by his pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr, remains a fixture of concert halls and places of worship worldwide. Staging it inside the cathedral on the Rocher adds a particular resonance, given the building's role as the resting place of Monaco's princely family and its acoustics suited to large-scale choral works.
For residents and visitors with an interest in classical music, the date is worth marking in the diary given the scale of the ensemble involved. Seating in the cathedral is limited, so those planning to attend should expect demand ahead of the performance.