THE LAST MUSIC FOR MAESTRO ROSTROPOVICH

[duhhh86]

who were the pallbearers? any idea?

[valleyfornia209]

Damn... R.I.P. hope he gets a shiny new gold cello up there

[jaybird321]

OMG... I didn't realize he had died.

[dougo18907]

To a great cellist and conducter who inspired me to do the same. Rostropovich will add to the music the angels make.

[kingary]

What an honor to have been present.

[leontud]

now, let the heavens enjoy your music.

[thelightisahead]

What was the music? Mozart's Requiem, perchance? I'm only guessing on that last chord :S and I don't even know if that 'Amen' from the Lacrymosa is the last part, presumably not, as Mozart wrote it, and ofc didn't finish the work. Still sounds like good music!

[gspaulsson]

I think it is the end of the Mozart Requiem - the last part of the Agnus Dei, a fugue on "Cum sanctis in aeternam" ending with "quia pius est", "est" on a D major chord. That "est" is what I think we're hearing (it's certainly a D major chord). The Lacrimosa is about half way through the Requiem. The ending words: "Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, grant them eternal rest and may perpetual light shine upon them, with your saints for ever, who is [are] pious"

[gspaulsson]

And no, Mozart didn't finish it, but his student Sussmayr did, with Mozart probably having told him what he wanted. For the part from "grant them eternal rest" onwards, Sussmayr reprises Mozart's opening.

[thelightisahead]

Ahh right, yeah I've got Mozart's Requiem, it's great. I think Sussmayr did a good job, well, with finishing the |Lacrimosa at any rate. And like you say, as a pupil of Mozart, and having probably received instruction, he was probably the best to do it. And I wouldn't know D major chord from any other chord :S apart from a minor chord ofc.

[bballstar51213]

its funny. if you do analysis of the requiem, you can clearly see which bits mozart wrote and which bits that sussmayr wrote. Much of the piece is clearly in mozart's style, but then something comes up in the middles of a movement and you just go... huh?

[mshakhz]

Tzarstvo emu nebesnoie

[chapeauetbarbe]

What a full life Rostropovich led, and what a great talent he was.

[yeliao]

Bravo and thank you Maestro Rostropovich!

Thank you so much for posting this video.

P.S. Your site is great.

[elixiaboy]

IL GRANDE GRANDE MAESTRO

[tlz16]

Светлая память.

[Cayo255]

VIVA SLAVA!!!!!!!