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LONDON, Jan 2, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- More than 100,000 British classical music lovers have voted Mozart's 1791 "Clarinet concerto in A Major" as his greatest work.
Listeners of London's Classic FM, 103,000 of them to be exact, voted "Requiem" second and "Ave Verum Corpus" third in the survey taken to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth, the BBC reported.
Next on the list was the "Piano concerto No. 21" and "The Marriage of Figaro."
"Mozart's music has connected with more people through the years than any other composer before or since," Classic FM Manager Darren Henley said.
The clarinet concerto was Mozart's last completed instrumental work, the BBC noted. He died two months later.
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