Brahms's "Ein deutsches Requiem" (A German Requiem) is written for a large orchestra, chorus, and soloists. The ensemble typically includes woodwinds, brass, strings, and percussion, alongside a four-part mixed choir and soprano and baritone soloists. Unlike traditional settings of the Requiem Mass, Brahms's work does not include a liturgical text but instead uses biblical passages to convey themes of comfort and hope.
Johannes Brahms.
Almost every composer of renown has one. Mozart and Leonard Bernstein each have famous ones.
Brahms's most famous piece is the Lullaby, but Hungarian Dance No. 5 is pretty famous too.
Brahms
It is Brahms' Requiem, also know as A German Requiem.
One likely reason Johannes Brahms wrote A German Requiem was to mourn the death of his beloved mother. A German Requiem was written shortly after his mother's death in 1865.
Brahms's "Ein deutsches Requiem" (A German Requiem) is written for a large orchestra, chorus, and soloists. The ensemble typically includes woodwinds, brass, strings, and percussion, alongside a four-part mixed choir and soprano and baritone soloists. Unlike traditional settings of the Requiem Mass, Brahms's work does not include a liturgical text but instead uses biblical passages to convey themes of comfort and hope.
Ivan Ditmars composed the Brahms paraphrase heard in "Requiem for Methuselah" .
Johannes Brahms.
Do you mean "What is the German Requiem"? If you do, then it's a famous musical masterpiece by German composer Johannes Brahms.
Almost every composer of renown has one. Mozart and Leonard Bernstein each have famous ones.
Michael Musgrave has written: 'George Grove, Music and Victorian Culture' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation 'A Brahms Reader' -- subject(s): Composers, Biography 'Brahms, A German requiem' 'The music of Brahms' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation
Brahms's most famous piece is the Lullaby, but Hungarian Dance No. 5 is pretty famous too.
Brahms
This is not an orthodox or liturgical Requiem, and Brahms didn't have traditional religious views; he chose his own texts, and set German texts rather than Latin ones. The piece in its final seven-movement form developed over a period of time, the fifth movement (soprano solo) being the last to be composed.
Many of his compositions are famous. Here are just a few examples: the four symphonies, the four concertos, 'Cradle Song', the German Requiem.