Nearly anything by Mahler either has a triumph over death in it, or in the next symphony, like Sym No. 2 is the Resurrection Sym. this happens often with Mahler. He said his symphonies were like an entire universe!
Brahms wanted the Requiem for the people to be understood "by the people." Hence he took it out of Latin (the regular language of Requiems), and put it in German. It is so b
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