Download Mozart-Setrakian Masonic Funeral Music (mp3, 6.8 MB)
Mozart-Setrakian Masonic Funeral Music
Download Mozart-Setrakian Masonic Funeral Music (mp3, 6.8 MB)
Lebanese composer Setrak Setrakian's arrangement for organ of Mozart's Masonic Funeral Music (Mauerische Trauermusik), KV 477, is based on the original orchestrated version, which features parts for two oboes, clarinet, three bassett horns, contrabassoon. two French horns, first violins, second violins, viola, and lower strings (violoncello and contrabass). This extraordinary work, which takes the form of a slow march marked "Adagio," dates from 1785, and was written for the funeral rites of Duke Georg August von Mecklenburg and Count Franz Esterházy von Galánta. Mozart's score was premiered at the "Zur gekrönten Hoffnung" ("Crowned Hope") Lodge on 17 November 1785.
Art: Ignaz Unterberger. Initiation Ceremony in a Viennese Masonic Lodge during the Reign of Joseph II (1790). Vienna, Historisches Museum der Stadt. The seated figure in the far right foreground is widely believed to be Mozart.
