The idea of composing a requiem in the German language based on texts from the Lutheran Bible and the Apocrypha began to take shape in Brahms' mind in 1857, a year after the death of his friend and ...

What is so ‘German’ about this requiem, then? Why the additional word in the title? After all, we never refer to Fauré’s ‘French Requiem’ or Mozart’s ‘Austrian Requiem’. So, what was at the root of ...

NEW YORK — The New York concert season drawing to a close was more or less bookended by performances of Brahms’ “A German Requiem,” intended to set the work in broader contexts. In October, Lincoln ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Johannes Brahms' "Ein deutsches Requiem" (the full original title is "Ein deutsches Requiem, nach Worten der heiligen Schrift," ...

With the coronavirus pandemic raging and no public performances in the forseeable future, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is streaming its acclaimed performance of Brahms' Requiem – free. April ...