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
József Ács (musician) József Ács (musician) József Ács (born 1948) is a German composer, and classical pianist and composer of Hungarian origin. A graduate of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, he won the first prize for piano at the "German Music Competition" in the Beethovenhalle in Bonn. He is particularly renowned for his recitals of Franz Liszt, and has done work in conjunction with the Vatican Archives. More recently he has been performing the works of Italian composer Ruggero Leoncavallo. He composed a completion of Leoncavallo's Requiem which was a fragment. Ács also