About the works
The concert features two powerful and moving works. Mozart’s "Requiem" was written in 1791 and completed by his pupil Süssmayr. The work, known among other things from the film *Amadeus*, is a landmark in music history and part of the common cultural heritage. With a text from the Catholic Requiem Mass, the music embraces drama, humility, defiance, and other emotions linked to humanity’s encounter with death, and many believe that the combination of a timeless text and Mozart’s own life situation makes the work especially compelling.
Mauersberger’s "Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst" is a funeral motet written on Good Friday 1945, after the bombing of Dresden. According to legend, the composer found eleven choirboys dead in the cellar of the boarding school. The motet expresses despair, grief, and questions about the destruction. The text is taken from the Lamentations in the Old Testament, about the destruction of Jerusalem, and it also depicts loss in war and other disasters in our own time.
Artists
- Hannah Agnethe Pold, soprano
- Sunniva Fevang, alto
- Simen Bredesen, tenor
- Brynjar Ons?ien, bass
- The C?cilia Society’s orchestra
- Stefan Ibsen Zlatanos, organ
- Steffen Kammler, conductor
- The C?cilia Society’s choir
Tickets
Thanks to Line Altern Halvorsen Valb?, UiO employees can purchase tickets for NOK 390 (the regular Ticketmaster price is NOK 440 plus fees). Child and student tickets cost NOK 190. Please contact Line directly if you wish to attend this splendid performance. As a UiO employee you may order a maximum of 4 tickets. The deadline to order through Line is Monday, 16 March at 16:00.