Mozart's "Lacrimosa" with "Amen" fugue

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Mozart's "Lacrimosa" with "Amen" fugue

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A choir gave to me some sheet music of an alternative version of the "Lacrimosa" (or "Lacrymosa" - BTW, what's the correct spelling?), to prepare training aids for it. It's rather different from the traditional version by Süssmayr as, after the first 8 measures written by Mozart, there are 16 competely different measures, and then there is an "Amen" that is a fugue of 79 measures. The choir people told me that it was written by Eybler, but I made some research on internet, and Eybler only wrote a couple of soprano measures of "Lacrimosa", then he gave up. This "Amen" is probably based on a 16-measure fragment discovered only in the 1960s and used by other authors (Levin, Maunder, Druce) to compose alternatives to the Süssmayr's version.

I'm trying to find what's the actual author of the version I received. Can anybody help?

Regards.

Max
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FYI: I eventually found it was Maunder's version.

Regards.

Max
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