A German Requiem (Brahms) 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 and a baritone soloist, composed between 1865 and 1868. It comprises seven movements, which together last 65 to 80 minutes, making this work Brahms's longest composition. "A German Requiem" is sacred but non-liturgical, and unlike a long tradition of the Latin "Requiem", "A German Requiem", as its title states, is a "Requiem" in the German language. Brahms's mother died in February 1865, a loss that caused him much grief and may well
Modern completions of Mozart's Requiem a plagal cadence with a Picardy third (iv–I in D minor) at the end of the Lacrymosa. Jones combines the two, ending the fugue with a variation on the concluding bars of Süssmayr's Lacrymosa as well as the plagal cadence. Modern completions of Mozart's Requiem This article lists some of the modern completions of the "Requiem" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. For a performance of the Requiem in Rio de Janeiro in December 1819, Austrian composer Sigismund von Neukomm constructed a further movement based on material in the Süssmayr version. Incorporating music from various movements including the Requiem aeternum, Dies irae,