Sams, Eric (2000). The Songs of Johannes Brahms. Yale University Press. էջ 326. ISBN9780300079623. «But the thought of bright nearness brings back the face-to-face music of 'Von Angesicht zu Angesichte', which is as close as the agnostic Brahms ever came to a communion with deity. As the pious aria ends, the humanist moral returns.»
