Navigating life after losing a loved one is something most of us eventually experience. For composer Johannes Brahms, the death of his mother in 1865 and the loss of his mentor Robert Schumann nine ...

Ein Deutsches Requiem (German Requiem) by Johannes Brahms has been performed so regularly that it’s easy to forget that it’s awfully hard. I’ve done this piece so I’m not unsympathetic to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Unlike most musical settings of the requiem, which are based on the Latin mass for the dead, Brahms chose his own texts from Luther's German Bible, selecting passages that contemplate grief, ...

The University of Wyoming choirs will present Johannes Brahms’ “A German Requiem” Saturday, May 7. The concert is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall. UW ...

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 ...

It was a work Brahms labored over for a dozen years. Consoled by the psalms, the gospels, and the prophets, he set their words to his music. Music that would be his grandest. Perhaps even his greatest ...

The Chancel Choir of the First United Methodist Church of Santa Monica, and the Chancel Choir of the First United Methodist Church of Pasadena, are joining forces to present “A German Requiem” by ...