Symphonic
3 postsEmperor
Black Metal · Ihsahn & Samoth (Notodden, 1991)
Emperor, from Notodden, defined symphonic black metal with In the Nightside Eclipse (1994), pairing the genre's intensity with a cosmic, majestic grandeur drawn from European romanticism.In the machin
Immortal
Black Metal · Abbath & Demonaz (Bergen, 1991)
Immortal, from Bergen, built an entire imagined realm, the frostbitten kingdom of Blashyrkh, rather than any political program. The work is winter, cold, and fantasy taken to operatic extremes, one of
Requiem in D minor, K. 626
Mass (autograph manuscript, incomplete) · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart began the Requiem in late July 1791 on commission from an anonymous patron, who turned out to be Count Franz von Walsegg, a Viennese nobleman who intended to pass the work off as his own compos
