1790s

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Catholic mass · Classical

Requiem

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1791

An anonymous stranger commissioned it and Mozart died before finishing. A pupil completed the rest, and arguments about which bars are his continue.

★ 9.5

Symphony · Classical

London Symphonies

Joseph Haydn and Eugen Jochum

1795

Haydn was nearly sixty and had spent thirty years in a prince's service before a promoter took him to London, where he became famous overnight.

★ 7.3