A German Requiem (Brahms) humanism persists through the work. Brahms purposely omitted Christian dogma. In his correspondence with Carl Reinthaler, when Reinthaler expressed concern over this, Brahms refused to add references to "the redeeming death of the Lord", as Reinthaler described it, such as . In the Bremen performance of the piece, Reinthaler took the liberty of inserting the aria "I know that my Redeemer liveth" from Handel's "Messiah" to satisfy the clergy. In addition to soprano and baritone soloists and mixed chorus, "A German Requiem" is scored for: Since Brahms inserted the fifth movement, the work shows symmetry around the fourth movement, which
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