RE: Your funeral songs
February 24, 2014 at 2:00 pm
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2014 at 2:01 pm by Alex K.)
Johannes Brahms, who was probably a deist or even atheist, wrote a "requiem for the living",
his German Requiem. He used his excellent knowledge of scripture to compile a selection
of dogma-free verses from the German bible, and the greatest and ridiculously morbid part is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6zpVsGbvNo
For all flesh is as grass,
and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth,
and the flower thereof falleth away.
One of the most haunting and at the same time uplifting pieces of music for me is
the beginning of Schumann's violin concerto, which he wrote while descending
into syphillis-induced madness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtINAG2nJOI
his German Requiem. He used his excellent knowledge of scripture to compile a selection
of dogma-free verses from the German bible, and the greatest and ridiculously morbid part is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6zpVsGbvNo
For all flesh is as grass,
and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth,
and the flower thereof falleth away.
One of the most haunting and at the same time uplifting pieces of music for me is
the beginning of Schumann's violin concerto, which he wrote while descending
into syphillis-induced madness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtINAG2nJOI
