THE LAST MUSIC FOR MAESTRO ROSTROPOVICH

I had the opportunity to attend the last concert for Maestro Rostropovich at the Conservatory Concert Hall in Moscow.

These are the last music notes for the Maestro of Maestros.

You can read in my blog www.innovationsinnewspapers.com about this magic moment and see some pictures.

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[yeliao]

Bravo and thank you Maestro Rostropovich!

Thank you so much for posting this video.

P.S. Your site is great.

[valleyfornia209]

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

[duhhh86]

who were the pallbearers? any idea?

[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.

[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?

[kingary]

What an honor to have been present.

[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.

[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.

[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"

[leontud]

now, let the heavens enjoy your music.