I am pleased with defeat because it has occurred, because it is irrevocably united to all those events which are, which were, which will be, because to censure or deplore a single real occurrence is to blaspheme the universe.
Miro mi cara en el espejo para saber quién soy, para saber cómo me portaré dentro de unas horas, cuando me enfrente con el fin. Mi carne puede tener miedo; yo, no.
tfw you've got the house to yourself and you're hanging out in your room singing lieder with a piano track from youtube and then you remember you've got the window open. I hope whoever's mowing the lawn outside enjoyed it.
(I'm a pretty good singer so he'd better have enjoyed it)
Brahms ~ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (V/VII) ~ Herbert von Karajan
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Looking forward to seeing this performed Monday night in the Berlin Philharmonie...obviously without Kathleen Battle and Herbert von Karajan, but no doubt lovely just the same. Can't wait!
Brahms' "Ein Deutsches Requiem" ("A German Requiem") was about the language, that is, a mass for the dead in the language of the people. It was not a nationalism thing.
In fact, its first performance was not in Germany, but in Bremen*!
* In 1868, Bremen was recently a part of the North German Confederation, which was not entirely a true federated state at the time.