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
Stefan Wurz Mozart's Requiem, which premiered in Prague and Bolzano and was subsequently produced in several European countries. Current projects include "The Virtual Mirror", a collaboration with German games creator Wolfgang Walk and American writer Mark Barrett. Stefan Wurz Stefan Wurz (born October 24, 1964 in Karlsruhe, Germany) is a German composer who specialises in musical theatre. Having trained as a classical pianist as well as being a keyboarder and songwriter for various rock bands in his youth, Stefan Wurz studied musicology and composition at Karlsruhe University, where he also published a thesis on "femmes fatales" in music theatre. Wurz was the