"Mozart's Requiem in Kazanlak
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METROPOLITAN OF STARA ZAGORA CYPRIAN CONDUCTS A REQUIEM FROM C. А. MOZART IN HIS HOMETOWN KAZANLAK
On May 27, Saturday, at 7.30 pm on the stage of the House of Culture "Arsenal" in the town of Kazanlak will sound the monumental last work of the genius V. Mozart. А. Mozart - "Requiem". The Metropolitan of Stara Zagora, Kyprian, will stand at the conductor's podium in his hometown. Soloists Desi Stefanova, Nikolay Motsoff, Ofelia Hristova and Plamen Kumpikov, mixed choir "Petko Stainov"- Kazanlak, orchestra and choir of the State Opera - Stara Zagora will take part. Choirmaster Mladen Stanev.
The special performance is a gift for the people of Kazanlak and is in the program of the Rose Festival. Free entrance!
THE RECQUIEM (requiem aeternam - lit. 'eternal rest', Latin) is a solemn funeral mass /service of repose/ in the Roman Catholic Church, by standard composed of 14 canonical parts, with only the musical interpretations over the centuries of composers varying. The Requiem has no counterpart in Orthodoxy or Protestantism. The most interesting interpretations of the Requiem theme are considered to be those of Giuseppe Verdi and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The Requiem concludes Mozart's creative career; it is the composer's last work. This fact makes us perceive his music in a very special way, as an epilogue of his whole life, as an artistic testament. Mozart wrote the Requiem on a commission that was made for him in July 1791, but he was unable to get down to work then - he had to complete the operas The Mercy of Titus and The Magic Flute first. After the premiere of his last opera, the composer focused his full attention on the Requiem.
Mozart was already seriously ill when he wrote the Requiem. He was dying and knew his days were numbered. He worked with unprecedented speed, even for him, and still failed to complete it: of 12 conceived movements, he managed to finish 9 incompletely. Mozart left a large amount of notated material with jotted down ideas for the music by the end of the Requiem.
Mozart's "Requiem" was completed by Mozart's favourite pupil, F. X. Süssmayr, who was well aware of Mozart's intentions. Süssmayr painstakingly culled from Mozart's remaining sheet music everything that pertained to the Requiem.
"Mozart's Requiem has given rise to many legends and discussions. One of the main questions is what was written by Mozart and what was added by Süssmayr. Expert musicologists believe that the text is authentic up to the first 8 bars of the "Lacrimosa", after that it is the work of Süssmayr, who completed the work based on Mozart's draft, preliminary sketches and the composer's oral instructions.
Mozart's "Requiem" is considered one of his most precious and mysterious works; it was first performed at the composer's funeral.
STAROZAGORIAN MITROPOLITAN CYPRIAN was born on 08.03.1976 in the town of St. Petersburg. He was born in 1976 in Kazanlak. He graduated from secondary music education in 1995 in his hometown.
He received monasticism on 01.09.1996 in Rila Stavropegial Monastery from Bishop John of Dragovitija, with spiritual elder Metropolitan Pankraty of Stara Zagora.
He was ordained a hierodeacon on 08.09.1996 in the town of St. He was ordained a hieromonk on 14.09.1996 in St. Nicholas", town of. On the 14th and 14th of St. Nicholas' Eucharist in Stara Zagora.
From October 1996 until the end of 1998 he was an ephemeral monk at the Kazanlak Monastery of St. Stanislaus. At the same time he completed the two-year course of the St. Mary's Monastery. John of Rila", after which he was admitted to the clergy of the Vratsa diocese as acting abbot of the monastery of St. Pror. Ilia".
In 2000 he was appointed protosignal of the Vratsa Diocese and conductor of the representative choir "St. Ilija". Sophronius Bishop. He is also the Convenor of the Vratsa Diocese.
Metropolitan Kyprian as conductor of the representative choir "St. Sophrony Bishop of Vratsa. Vrachanski" of the Vrachan Diocese is a laureate of the Festival of Russian Church Song (Sofia, 2002), the International Competition Singing Soul (Bialystok, Poland, 2003), he is also the winner of the Grand Prize of the International Festival of Orthodox Music "Worthy Est" - 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2011 in the town of Vrachan. Поморие. Under the conducting of Metropolitan Cyprian the choir won a bronze medal and the special prize for the best performance of Orthodox music at the International Choir Competition in the town of Pomorie in 2011. Preveza (Greece, 2013). In 2015, it added to its many accolades a silver and bronze medal at the European Choir Games and the Grand Prix of Nations in Magdeburg, Germany.
He has given concerts in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey and Romania. In 2012 he gave concerts in Crotone and Catanzaro, region. Calabria, Italy with Mozart's Requiem, and in 2014 returned to the Italian stage with concerts in Verona.
During his studies at the Faculty of Theology at St. Kliment Ohridski" and by decision of St. Synod he was elevated to the archimandrite dignity on 31.08.2003.
He has held various positions in the Vratsa diocese. He is a recipient of the jubilee badge - Order of St. Sophrony Bishop. Vratsa Diocese and Vratsa Region for special merits in the development of church, social, cultural and musical life in Vratsa Diocese and Vratsa Region.
In February 2006, by the decision of St. In 2006 2006 he was sent for obedience as a protosignal of the diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia, which position he held until 01.08.2007, when he was appointed protosignal of the Vratsa diocese.
By the decision of St. On 03.03.2008 he was consecrated bishop with the title of Trajanopolski in the cathedral church in the town of Vratsa. He was appointed Vicar of the Metropolitan of Vratsa, a position he holds to this day.
He was elected Metropolitan of Stara Zagora by St. He was elected Metropolitan of Stara Zagora by the Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on 11.12.2016 in the Synodal Chapel "St. Prince Boris-Mikhail" in Sofia, which ministry he has been performing since 18 December 2016, when he was enthroned as Metropolitan of Stara Zagora.