2025, October 23 - 26 in Vienna
2026, October 22 - 25 in Vienna
Mozart Requiem Choir Festival
Mozart | Palestrina | Ehrenfellner
Mozart's Requiem is a choral masterpiece composed in 1791 during the final year of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life, left incomplete at his death. It is renowned for its profound and hauntingly beautiful composition, reflecting the genius of Mozart and is a testament to his unparalleled skill in blending emotion and musical complexity. The piece holds great historical and cultural significance as it symbolizes the culmination of Mozart's career and remains a celebrated and iconic work in the choral and classical music repertoire, inspiring countless musicians and audiences worldwide.
From October 23 - 26, 2025 you have the chance to rehearse together with all participants and conductor Christoph Ehrenfellner in Vienna.
The concert will take place on the 25th of October in the famous Minorite Church.
We offer choirs and individual singers the possibility to participate in this wonderful event in Vienna.
www.minoritenkirche.wien
The following pieces will be performed:
Requiem in D minor, K. 626 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Super flumina Babylonis - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Nessuno, mamma!, op.64 - Madrigali sopra i versi di G.Ungaretti - Christoph Ehrenfellner (world premiere)
Christoph Ehrenfellner
Since childhood days at the Vienna Boys Choir I am connected to the Sacred Choir Music of Mozart and Palestrina. The nucleus of my creativity - let us say the sublimity of musical thinking and feeling - has always been in sacred music, and results today in receiving the prestigious ICMA Composers Award 2025 - mainly for my 4 successful operas. Thus, I am thrilled to seek the touch of contemporary vocal writing with the grand old Renaissance school of Palestrina. The flumina Babylonis-Madrigal meets my new Madrigal on Ungarettis most famous ‘Nessuno, Mamma’, lamenting the loss of his son.
When we build this arch from Palestrina to Ehrenfellner, expanding 400 years of vocal history, we have a center-piece in Mozarts Requiem, and a fascinating tour d’horizont for Choir singers. For this ambitious project I am honoured to welcome a jewel of Viennese Choir scene as the core of our Ensemble: ‘Coro Siamo’ under Agnes Schnabl, Austria’s most successful choir director of the younger generation. (London Choir Competition 2024 1st prize!)
Get a glimpse of the 2024 Mozart Requiem and enjoy browsing through the images: