Travel tips for classic lovers – Bremen and Johannes Brahms

In 1868, the “official” premiere of the German Requiem took place under the direction of Johannes Brahms. The place of performance was the Bremen Cathedral. Brahms had already begun composing and compiling the texts in the 1850s, but the work then lay dormant for several years. Only the death of his mother in 1865 gave the impetus for further work.

When the first performance took place in the Bremen Cathedral in 1868, Clara Schumann and his father were in the audience. The triumphant reception of the work in this magnificent ecclesiastical building was a great satisfaction for the Hamburg composer and Viennese by choice, who until then had not received recognition in northern Germany, and was one of the greatest moments of his life.