Michael Haydn Requiem and Mozart Vespers

Both these works were composed and performed in Salzburg, where the composers were working at the court and cathedral of the Prince-Archbishop. Michael Haydn, like his older brother Joseph, was a boy singer in Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral and, as an adult, he moved to Salzburg where Mozart, who was nearly 20 years younger, was born. Mozart played in the orchestra when Michael Haydn’s Requiem was performed and it seems that it influenced some movements in Mozart’s Requiem, composed at the end of his life in Vienna.