1. Introduction: concept and history; 2. The work as a whole; 3. The individual movements; 4. Reception; 5. The work in performance.
A detailed study examining The German Requiem, Brahms's controversial, and his largest, masterpiece.
"Well illustrated and documented, with an ample slected bibliography and index, this is the best English-language discussion of the subject since the long passage in Donald Francis Tovey's Essays in Musical Analysis v. 5 (1937)." M. Meckna, Choice
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