whats the name of the opera in amadeus when hes about to die ?

So yes.. im dying to know! IT's the bit where mozart is dying in bed and salierie is helping him write down the whole opera. It's really melancholy and slow and im absolutely pining to know because i want to get it on cd, BUT i don't know the name of it !!! So if you know the name of that one, OR All of the operas in the Amadeus movie, please post back asap!
Thanks!!!

 

That would be Mozart's Requiem in D minor K 626. I believe the part which you are referring to is the very opening called "Introitus"

I haven't seen the movie in ages, but I am pretty sure that's what it was... you can hear a sample of it here: www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/clipserve/B000001GDM001001/0/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_001/103-8096470-8347833

Listen to a sample of the first track...
Let me know if that's it!



Steve-O

 

yes you were correct, thank you so much you are a legend, i was looking for thhe title for that for ages..

 

Yea, it's definitely his Requiem in D Minor. We played the first two movements in band recently, actually. It's a genius work.

 

Mozart also completed his opera The Magic Flute close to the time of his death. As I recall, in the movie Amadeus his work on this life affirming opera provided a (possibly life-extending) distraction from the morbidity of his writing his own requiem.

As for his Requiem, while it stands as a great piece of music in its entirety, it could be observed that the Confutatis movement leading into the opening measures of the Lacrymosa, which was the last piece he completed before his death, is one of the most insanely powerful pieces of Guitar-smashing Heavy Metal/Punk Rock ever written.

 

Mozart requiem in a band! BRILLIANT! That should put some life into it. Ok, I ought to be fair to Mozart, his requiem is pretty fucking good, and he was a genius. Shame he had to waste it living in the classical period. If he could have been around a hundred years earlier like Bach or a hundred years later like Beethoven he'd be SO much more popular. I just find his music so twee and namby pamby. Plenty of emotion in it and it's very beautiful but it's just a little bit too pure for me. It's like being in a squeaky clean world where you don't touch anything for fear of being frowned upon. Rachmaninov could stir up the exact same emotions with his stuff and so could Bach in his slow movements as well (you don't get to hear about them much because Bach was so bloody amazing at writing fast and complicated counterpoint stuff but when he did a slow movement he did a proper one all right!), and yet they both had a real bite which Mozart just didn't have. It's not his fault - it was the classical period - they way things were going then. He WAS a genius, no question. The techniques involved in his writings are as sophisticated as fuck. And yet his music sounds so unbelievably simple. All part of his greatness. It's just not to my taste. And I maintain that Bach's intellect was superior. So there

 

I agree with that. I enjoy Mozart from time to time, I just find that a lot of his music lacks a bit in intensity. I know, he was brilliant, but that's my reaction. Compared with Beethoven, well... no comparison. They're so different. A bit like McCartney vs. Lennon, really...

 

Just sang that in choir with an orchestra. Absolutely brilliant, most fun i've had in choir for ages. I really want to see that film now - i've had my friend telling me its brilliant especially the man with the funny laugh...?

 

Oh yeah, great film...Tom Hulce was born to play Wolfie...

 

p.s. cn now has a Requiem page (background and recommended recordings),

http://www.classicalnotes.net/classics/mozartrequiem.html

Great site check it out.