A German Requiem (Brahms) the traditional Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, which employs a standardized text in Latin, the text is derived from the German Luther Bible. Brahms's first known use of the title "Ein deutsches Requiem" was in an 1865 letter to Clara Schumann in which he wrote that he intended the piece to be ""eine Art deutsches Requiem"" (a sort of German Requiem). Brahms was quite moved when he found out years later that Robert Schumann had planned a work of the same name. "German" refers primarily to the language rather than the intended audience. Brahms told Carl Martin Reinthaler, director of music
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