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I can't help but be obvious with this one, but this is the most appropriate, I think. (I could take the easy way out and pick the song that it seems everyone has liked to sing at funerals for *other* people. I think there were three funerals in a row I went to when someone sang Bette Midlers "Wind Beneath My Wings." But you know, if someone sang that at my funeral I think I'd have to haunt them forever after.)
Many classical composers have tackled the Roman Catholic funeral mass, but none like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. According to the movie Amadeus Mozart was too sick to write the music himself, and Salieri was continually stunned as what he thought was obvious about how Mozart would construct was completely unfounded as Mozart relentlessly came up with different, stunning and brilliant twists to the traditional mass.
The relationship between Mozart and Salieri is pure supposition, of course. What is known is that Mozart's composition never saw completion on its own. It reached a common format under different composers, but the only thing that was found were several notes for a Requiem mass and half-finished compositions that stunned and turned heads to the former prodigy.
My copy was bought at USC's bookstore for less than seven dollars and most of it was performed by Berlin's Radio Symphony Orchestra under direction of Uwe Gronostay. Only the last movement, Laudate Dominum was performed by the Budapest Philharmonic under the baton of Ivan Fisher.
I bought a copy about a year ago for Molasses, and I can't remember the exact group that performed it, let alone the director, but suffice to say that I don't like it as much. The pace of the Berlin orchestra might be faster, but somehow the other group is more slow and dramatic and well...Germanic. I like my copy because while it doesn't rush the tempo, it is far more driving, rather than belaboring the point.
Therefore I don't know if I really would like a full orchestra at my funeral to perform Mozart's Requiem. Maybe they could just play my CD.
Obvious Answers
Tori Amos: Happy Phantom
They Might be Giants: You'll Miss Me
Many classical composers have tackled the Roman Catholic funeral mass, but none like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. According to the movie Amadeus Mozart was too sick to write the music himself, and Salieri was continually stunned as what he thought was obvious about how Mozart would construct was completely unfounded as Mozart relentlessly came up with different, stunning and brilliant twists to the traditional mass.
The relationship between Mozart and Salieri is pure supposition, of course. What is known is that Mozart's composition never saw completion on its own. It reached a common format under different composers, but the only thing that was found were several notes for a Requiem mass and half-finished compositions that stunned and turned heads to the former prodigy.
My copy was bought at USC's bookstore for less than seven dollars and most of it was performed by Berlin's Radio Symphony Orchestra under direction of Uwe Gronostay. Only the last movement, Laudate Dominum was performed by the Budapest Philharmonic under the baton of Ivan Fisher.
I bought a copy about a year ago for Molasses, and I can't remember the exact group that performed it, let alone the director, but suffice to say that I don't like it as much. The pace of the Berlin orchestra might be faster, but somehow the other group is more slow and dramatic and well...Germanic. I like my copy because while it doesn't rush the tempo, it is far more driving, rather than belaboring the point.
Therefore I don't know if I really would like a full orchestra at my funeral to perform Mozart's Requiem. Maybe they could just play my CD.
Obvious Answers
Tori Amos: Happy Phantom
They Might be Giants: You'll Miss Me
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