This site includes a biography, photographs, and lists of works with sound files of excerpts from many works. (
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/brahms.html
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This site features essays on Brahms on the centennial of his death (1997) by prominent musicians and students that followed him as well as a discussion of his compositional style. (
http://members.aol.com/abelard2/brahms.htm
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This Kennedy Center for the Arts site offers a biography of Brahms along with video interviews and performances of various works including the German Requiem. (
http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entity...
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This site provides some background information on Brahms's Deutsches Requiem. (
http://www.newdominion.org/Pages/Reviews/Brahms_Requiem/requiem_kurt_phalen.html
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This site describes the Requiem Mass of the Roman Catholic Church, provides a history of this special liturgy, the text, and prominent composer who have set the text to music. (
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Requiem/
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This site is dedicated to the wonderfully dramatic Requiem by Verdi, with sound files and text from several movements. (
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/1985/analys.html
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