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
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,