Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Nänie (the German form of Latin nenia, meaning "a funeral song") is a composition for SATB chorus and orchestra, op. 82 by Johannes Brahms, which sets to music the poem Nänie by Friedrich Schiller. Brahms composed the piece in 1881, in memory of his deceased friend Anselm Feuerbach. Nänie is a lamentation on the inevitability of death; the first sentence, Auch das Schöne muß sterben, translates to "Even the Beautiful must die." An average performance has a duration of approximately 15 minutes.. }
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- Nänie comment "Nänie (the German form of Latin nenia, meaning "a funeral song") is a composition for SATB chorus and orchestra, op. 82 by Johannes Brahms, which sets to music the poem Nänie by Friedrich Schiller. Brahms composed the piece in 1881, in memory of his deceased friend Anselm Feuerbach. Nänie is a lamentation on the inevitability of death; the first sentence, Auch das Schöne muß sterben, translates to "Even the Beautiful must die." An average performance has a duration of approximately 15 minutes.".