A German Requiem (Brahms) years. "A German Requiem" inspired the titles of Jorge Luis Borges' 1949 short story "Deutsches Requiem" and Philip Kerr's 1991 novel "A German Requiem". The start of the piece's second movement, ""Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras"" ("For all flesh, is as grass"), is used in the opening credits of the BBC documentary film series "", with various parts of this part of the movement being used for the closing credits. A German Requiem (Brahms) A German Requiem, to Words of the Holy Scriptures, Op. 45 () by Johannes Brahms, is a large-scale work for chorus, orchestra, a soprano
Music for the Requiem Mass of operatic vocal soloists. Many composers have composed a Requiem. Some of the most notable include the following (in chronological order): English with Latin Cornish Estonian German French, Greek, with Latin French, English, German with Latin Latin and Japanese Latin and German and others Latin and Polish Latin and 7th Century Northumbrian Russian Taiwanese Persian, Farsi Nonlinguistic In the 20th century the requiem evolved in several new directions. The genre of War Requiem is perhaps the most notable; it consists of compositions dedicated to the memory of people killed in wartime. These often include extra-liturgical poems of a pacifist or