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Matthew Martin

The important work that inspired Mozart’s Requiem is now available in a new masterpiece!The Academy of Ancient Music, which has worked extensively with its founder Hogwood and his successor Richard Eger, and now with Music Director Lawrence Cummings, presents two choral works by Michael Haydn with the talented Gonville and Keys College Choir of Cambridge. The “Father of the Symphony” Joseph Haydn Michael Haydn, who was five years younger than Joseph Haydn, the “father of the symphony,” and later became the court composer of the Archbishop of Salzburg, was as prolific as his older brother and recorded many excellent symphonies, chamber works, and stage music, but it was his church music that was especially highly regarded during his lifetime. His “Requiem” (1771) for the death of Sigismund von Schlattenbach, Archbishop of Salzburg, who is also known for having selected Mozart as a young boy, is an important work th