Download or read book Sacred Music in the Late 19th Century written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the late 19th century, composers of sacred music began to question institutional conceptions of faith. Here, study one monumental yet very personal work, Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem; one very anti-monumental expression, Faure's Requiem; and one that seems monumental, yet ends in a deliberately equivocal manner, Verdi's Quattro Pezzi Sacri.