Which piece of classical music was banned for being too depressing...I think it was a piece of Mahler's music.

Answer 1

I think you refer to "Gloomy Sunday" (The Hungarian Suicide Song, 1933) composed by Rezső Seress. According to urban legend, it inspired hundreds of suicides. There is no systematic substantiation for such claims, as it is not documented where any such allegations appear in press coverage or other publications of the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloomy_Sunday
The crushing hopelessness and bitter despair of the original lyrics by Seress were soon replaced by the melancholic lyrics of the Hungarian poet László Jávor.

It has been covered numerous times, and there's a list of artists on the Wiki page.

Answer 2

I don't think it was the Moonlight Sonata. It's sad indeed. The story is that Beethoven improvised the first movement when a friend died.

Mahlers music whas indeed also never banished because it whas to depressing. Not only the Nazies banned mahler becaus he was a Jew, even in his own days whas he discriminated for it. that was one of the reasons why he became a Catholic.

Dimitri Shostakovich had a lot of troubles about his music being to depressing, to loud, to intellectual, to difficult. He had troubles with the authorities at least until Stalin died.
Lady Macbeth was banned a while, because of a letter in the Pravda that it was confusing, loud, ugly etc. There where rumors that Stalin himself wrote that letter. So Lady Macbeth is a good candidate.

Answer 3

Could it have been the Moonlight Sonata? Just a wild guess....its pretty sad, but I actually like that piece. I dont remember the composer

Answer 4

Rainsong..I'm with you . I like Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven. I don't think it's depressing; on the contrary, it's good especially when you play it at night.

Answer 5

you can't get any more depresing than this