Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

András Vass

Education:
Twelve years of piano studies at the Targu Mures Arts Lyceum; two years of private study with the composer Boldizsár Csíky; Balthasar five years of conducting study led by  Ervin Lukács, András Ligeti, and Tamás Gál, after having admitted with maximum score to Franz Liszt Academy of Music… More

Soloist

Ágnes Kovács

soprano

Eszter Balogh

mezzosoprano

Dávid Szigetvári

tenor

Szabolcs Hámori

bass

Honvéd Male Choir

(chorus master: Kálmán Strausz)

About the Programme

The last work of a composer always has a special status, even if the attention awarded to it is purely of chronological reasons. The importance of this "swan song" might increase further if as the admirers as the analysts consider it actually as the worthy closing and summary of his oeuvre. Such composition is Mozart's Requiem, too, which the author could not finish. Mozart had to compose a piece for a funeral of the certain Count Walsegg but he could complete only the first movement entitled Requiem aeternam; contrary to the legend, the work was finally compiled in 1792 by not Mozart's nemesis, Antonio Salieri, but a young musician, Franz  Xaver Süssmayr, commissioned by Mozart's widow. The piece, written for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, choir and orchestra is considered as the most important composition of Mozart. It is often heard as music for a festive occasion. Such festive occasions are All Saints Day and All Souls' Day, when the Christian world remembers the deceased relatives.