Sussmayer's completion is full of musical blunders.  Even Mozart called
him an idiot while he was alive, and judging from other pieces of music
he wrote, he was pretty much a hack.

There are some studies that indicate that the themes from the portions
that Sussmayer completed are Mozart.  These could be based on the missing
sketches that Mozart's widow mentioned.

There's no doubt that any completion, regardless of who does it, pales
against what Mozart would have done had he finished the Requiem.

Imagine had Mozart lived just another 5 years....the mind staggers at
the loss.

"Kim Patrick Clow" <[log in to unmask]>