New Jersey Symphony: Mozart's Requiem

A Requiem is a setting of the Catholic Mass for the dead, written to hold grief, ritual, and remembrance in a shared public space. At NJPAC, the New Jersey Symphony presents Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s *Requiem*, a late choral-orchestral work shaped by its unfinished state at the composer’s death and completed by close collaborators. Its New York–area cultural significance lies less in any single premiere story than in its long afterlife on local concert stages and in sacred settings. One can hear it as both liturgy and historical document, with ambiguity built into the score.