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
Classical music include the "Dies irae" from the Verdi Requiem, Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from "Peer Gynt", the opening bars of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" from "Die Walküre", Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee", and excerpts of Aaron Copland's "Rodeo". Several works from the Golden Age of Animation matched the action to classical music. Notable examples are Walt Disney's "Fantasia", Tom and Jerry's "Johann Mouse", and Warner Bros.' "Rabbit of Seville" and "What's Opera, Doc?" Similarly, movies and television often revert to standard, clichéd excerpts of classical music to convey refinement or opulence: