Michael Haydn Requiem C minor Finnish RSO, A Mustonen

Anu Komsi, soprano Petteri Salomaa, bass Topi Lehtipuu, tenor Wivan Nygård-Fagerudd, alto Finnische Radio Sinfonieorchester Helsinki Chamber Chor Andres Mustonen (director) Michael Haydn wrote the Missa pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismondo, or more generally Missa pro Defunctis, Klatzmann I:8, MH 155, following the death of the Count Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach in Salzburg on December 1771. Haydn completed the Requiem before the year was over, signing it “S[oli] D[eo] H[onore] et G[loria.] Sal