17.10.2026 - 8:30 pm
J. Brahms Requiem - Wiener Stephansdom - Wien - 2026
Come to St. Stephen’s Cathedral to hear Johannes Brahms’s famous *German Requiem*, a magnificent work that was not intended as funeral music, but rather as a source of comfort for those “who are suffering.”
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Although the title of the work might suggest otherwise, the German Requiem is not, strictly speaking, funeral music. The central theme of the work is not the eternal rest of the dead, but rather the consolation of the bereaved. It is music intended primarily for the living, and through its choice of texts, it reflects the intentions and personal grief of the composer, who had recently lost his mother.
“Since Bach’s Mass in B minor and Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, nothing has been written in this genre that can stand alongside Brahms’s German Requiem,” so gushed the hard-to-impress music critic Eduard Hanslick in his praise of this work, which helped Brahms achieve his breakthrough and, indeed, would go on to become the most popular of his compositions.
Join the Vienna Cathedral Choir and the Vienna Cathedral Orchestra, conducted by Cathedral Music Director Markus Landerer, along with renowned soloists, to experience this masterpiece for yourself at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.
J. Brahms: A German Requiem based on texts from the Holy Scriptures, Op. 45
90 minutes, no intermission
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Stephansplatz
1
1010
Wien
