When Mozart heard Bach’s motet ‘Singet dem Herrn’ in Leipzig in 1789, he cried out ‘Now, there is something one can learn from!’ He died on 5 December 1791 having completed just two thirds of the musical material for his Requiem. 25 years later, Schubert wrote in his diary in October 1816: ‘As though from afar, the magic notes of Mozart’s music still gently haunt me.’ That same month he completed his Fifth Symphony, the most Mozartian of all his orchestral works.

J.S. Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225
Schubert Symphony No. 5, D 485
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Mozart Requiem, K. 626