Mozart died long before the Berne convention existed, so probably no copyright existed in any nation other that Austria (unless it had bilateral copyright agreements with individual nations, which is possible) - and whatever copyright in the music did exist was probably not Mozart's but that of the Emperor Joseph II of Austria, who could claim it was carried out as part of Mozart's employment as a court musician (Verdi wouldn't have that sort of problem I think - he was mostly free-lance). Of course the copyright in Mozart's music is long expired (and so is copyright in Verdi's music, I think). The same applies to Verdi - only the music could be copyrightable as his.
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The text here isn't the complete text used by Verdi, it has different numbers of repetitions: whether that's a transcription fault or it's some conductor's "improvement" on the original is anybody's guess, as none of this information is provided on this page and we no longer have access to the video (it's been deleted from youtube) and we know neither who the conductor is nor who the chorus master is nor which choir is performing or which orchestra accompanies it.Ĭertainly Mozart would have no copyright in anything other that his music, since the words he used are clearly an uncopyrightable derived work based on the medieval original (perhaps acutually the same as the original, it's a long - very long - time since I last took an interest in his requiem).
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Mozart died long before the Berne convention existed, so probably no copyright existed in any nation other that Austria (unless it had bilateral copyright agreements with individual nations, which is possible) - and whatever copyright in the music did exist was probably not Mozart's but that of the Emperor Joseph II of Austria, who could claim it was carried out as part of Mozart's employment as a court musician (Verdi wouldn't have that sort of problem I think - he was mostly free-lance).Which complete text? The medieval original? The text used in Mozart's requiem? The text used in Fauré's requiem? The text used in Verdi's requiem? The text used by the RC Church in a funeral service in modern times but before it switched to using modern languages? I imagine the last of that list may be the same as the first, but I think it unlikely that any of the others is, because adding enough repetition to fit a clever bit of choral music was common practice. (Day of Wrath) As with the Berlioz Requiem, this one too has as its most prominent feature the dramatic pictorialism of the Sequence, 'Dies irae.' Verdi uses hammer strokes from the brass and bass drum to make quite literal the destruction of the world on that 'day of wrath.' (Verdi directs that the bass drum be stretched very tight.
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First published: 1874 Description: External websites: Free choir training aids for this work are available at Choralia. The text here isn't the complete text used by Verdi, it has different numbers of repetitions: whether that's a transcription fault or it's some conductor's "improvement" on the original is anybody's guess, as none of this information is provided on this page and we no longer have access to the video (it's been deleted from youtube) and we know neither who the conductor is nor who the chorus master is nor which choir is performing or which orchestra accompanies it.Ĭertainly Mozart would have no copyright in anything other that his music, since the words he used are clearly an uncopyrightable derived work based on the medieval original (perhaps acutually the same as the original, it's a long - very long - time since I last took an interest in his requiem). Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB Genre: Sacred, Requiem. Which complete text? The medieval original? The text used in Mozart's requiem? The text used in Fauré's requiem? The text used in Verdi's requiem? The text used by the RC Church in a funeral service in modern times but before it switched to using modern languages? I imagine the last of that list may be the same as the first, but I think it unlikely that any of the others is, because adding enough repetition to fit a clever bit of choral music was common practice.