In terms of quality and the appropriateness of it's setting, this Requiem is altogether in keeping with it's elevated purpose. In his obituary for Franz von Suppe in 1895, Johannes Brahms wrote: "He actually owes his incredible agility in secular things to his sacred compositions. He had really learnt something!"
In terms of quality and the appropriateness of it's setting, this Requiem is altogether in keeping with it's elevated purpose. In his obituary for Franz von Suppe in 1895, Johannes Brahms wrote: "He actually owes his incredible agility in secular things to his sacred compositions. He had really learnt something!"
