A requiem is also called a requiem stack, which is a mass celebrated for the repose of the mortal of the dead. By 1861 Brahms is believed to have completed two movements of what he believed he called a cantata of mourning, a piece of work begun in memory of his friend and fellow worker Robert Schumann, who has passed away in 1856. When his mother passed in February 1865, Brahms was motivated to complete the piece he had begun. He completed four additional movements by summer of 1866. Which ended up becoming seven movements. Typical requiems are place settings of the roman catholic mass for the dead. Yet the protestant –raised Johannes Brahms took a different approach. He took his own versus from the reformer Martin Luther’s German translation