Fest- und Gedenksprüche: differenze tra le versioni

I titoli originali dei tre movimenti sono:

 

 

The chosen biblical verses, ''Sprüche'' or [[Dictum|dicta]], are concerned with a people (''Volk''), its national culture, and tradition passed from fathers to sons. The topics matched the recent [[unification of Germany]] to an empire (''Kaiserreich'') in 1871, which led to festivities in the country. Brahms used a double chorus to illustrate both arguments and unification. His setting has been regarded as "an optimistic bulwark against the centrifugal antagonisms that would soon beset the young German nation".<ref name="Minor" />