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
The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream is an album by Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer Joe Zawinul, released in 1968. The title refers to the Third stream genre of music, melding classical and jazz. An example of strings playing in a jazz context in the 1960s was pianist Joe Zawinul's 1968 recording titled "The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream". Zawinul collaborated with avant-garde composer William S. Fischer on this recording. The music consists of a series of extended compositions that do not follow standard jazz forms such as