Ein deutsches Requiem

Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi, and Fauré, to name but a few, have written masses for the dead in Latin, staying true to the sacrosanct Gregorian tradition. But Brahms broke the mould by composing a requiem in his mother tongue around passages from the Lutheran Bible. Although the initial idea came to him after the death of his mentor Schumann, he did not resume work on it until his mother died nine years later. Despite the weight of his grief, the funeral ode delivered a message of hope: “Blessed are those who suffer, for they shall be comforted,” sing the choir of Notre Dame supported by Claire Désert and Tanguy de Williencourt. Rather than address God, Johannes Brahms comforts the living, in a requiem on a human scale. 

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