Walsegg probably intended to pass the Requiem off as his own composition, as he is known to have done with other works. It cannot be shown to what extent Süßmeyr may have depended on now lost "scraps of paper" for the remainder he later claimed the Sanctus and Agnus as his own. The autograph manuscript shows the finished and orchestrated introit in Mozart's hand, as well as detailed sketches of the Kyrie and the sequence Dies irae as far as the first nine bars of "Lacrimosa", and the vocal parts of the offertory. Many myths and controversies surrounded the piece, especially around how much of the piece was completed by Mozart before his death. A completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg, who had anonymously commissioned the piece for a requiem mass to commemorate the February 14 anniversary of his wife's death. 626) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1791 and left unfinished at the composer's death.
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