In the openingRequiem aeternamStutzmann made much of the hairpin dynamics; with sharply accentuated rhythms and growls from the black-coated trombones (who cut through the textures of theLacrimosamagnificently) underpinning the body of sound, the entreaties to the Lord in theKyriemade a confident s...
Special publication issued on the occasion of the acquisition of the autograph fair copy of the piano-vocal score of Ein Deutsches Requiem by the Brahms-Institut, Lübeck. Includes halftones of four pages from the ms: title page, and one page each from movements I, V, & VII. Contributions ...
requiem. Later in November he was ill and confined to bed; some apparent improvement on December 3 was not sustained, and on December 5 he died. “Severe miliary fever” was the certified cause; later, “rheumatic inflammatory fever” was named. Otherdiagnoses, taking account of Mozart’s ...