The complex drama surrounding Mozart's final days and his noble Requiem is told here in a lyrical narrative style, relating the events that secretly transformed an incomplete musical blueprint for what was only a part of a composition into what is universally agreed to be one of humankind's greatest treasures.

". . . an extended programme note for the non-specialist music lover"

      - Richard Maunder, Early Music Review
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". . . A lay-person who wishes to explore this strange tale could hardly do better than to acquire a copy of Daniel N. Leeson's Opus Ultimum"

      - Neal Zaslaw, Musicologist, Cornell Univ.
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". . . the Mozart Requiem as a compelling story!"

      - Publisher's Weekly (1/5/05)
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