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
Requiem (Bruckner) opening of the opening of the Requiem, with his softly shifting syncopations in the strings ... already faintly anticipates one or two of his own symphonic passages in the two earlier D minor symphonies, for instance Nos. '0' and 3... [We] cannot escape the solemn beauty of this music, which already has the authentic atmosphere of natural genius. During the years following the composition of the "Requiem", Bruckner wrote a number of small choral works as well as two works on a larger canvas: a "Magnificat" (1852) and the "Missa solemnis" in B-flat minor (1854). Strangely enough these do not