# The Requiem is left unfinished at Mozart's death as a dated commission-and-gap file

Date: 1791

## The fact

In 1791 the Requiem was left unfinished at [Mozart](/people/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart)'s death. Walsegg's anonymous commission is the received payer. Süssmayr completed later. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's documented role is: He accepted an anonymous commission and died mid-work. Süssmayr completed; the gap is lifetime.

## Context

The grey messenger is later colour. Sharing the commission with that payer is required. The setting of The Requiem is left unfinished at Mozart's death as a dated commission-and-gap file is the public file around 1791-12-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [personal-data-protection](/drivers/personal-data-protection) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

The attached driver is personal-data-protection. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Digital Mozart Edition — Requiem at https://dme.mozarteum.at/en/ (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum). Independent locator: Britannica — Mozart, Requiem at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Digital Mozart Edition — Requiem (https://dme.mozarteum.at/en/; Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum). Independent carrier: Britannica — Mozart, Requiem (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Digital Mozart Edition — Requiem (https://dme.mozarteum.at/en/; Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum).

## Significance

Worsening path from The Requiem is left unfinished at Mozart's death as a dated commission-and-gap file on 1791-12-01. An unfinished commissioned Requiem is a data-opacity path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Shared responsibility is part of The Requiem is left unfinished at Mozart's death as a dated commission-and-gap file. Naming Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1791-12-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The Requiem is left unfinished at Mozart's death as a dated commission-and-gap file under 1791-12-01 for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Established: a sourced public record of The Requiem is left unfinished at Mozart's death as a dated commission-and-gap file under 1791-12-01.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat later poison-Salieri stories as 1791 tape. Do not treat Süssmayr as Mozart. Mixed effects of The Requiem is left unfinished at Mozart's death as a dated commission-and-gap file are separate paths.

## People

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: https://factrail.ai/people/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection

## Sources

- https://dme.mozarteum.at/en/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/moz-requiem-1791