"In my study I can lay my hand on my Bible even in the dark."
From the funeral for the Queen Mother, Westminster Abbey, London,
"Requiem" is a fundamentally Protestant one for it professes faith in the resurrection and reunion with God through the atoning death of Jesus Christ. Brahms' choice of words reveals and understanding of the vanity and emptiness of life when it is lived apart from knowing the consolation of Christian truth. (Jane Stuart Smith)
To Brahms, travel and the enjoyment of nature were a necessity of life. He loved to bathe in beauty.
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