Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer and director (born 1766)

Franz Xaver Süssmayr

Austrian composer and conductor (1766-1803)

Franz Xaver Süssmayr or Süßmayr, also anglicized as Suessmayr, was an Austrian composer and conductor. Popular in his day, he is now known primarily as the composer who completed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's unfinished Requiem. In addition, there have been performances of…