Saddest classical song ever?

Question

I am looking for a really sad *CLASSICAL* music song. I mean so sad, I will be crying until next tuesday.

Thank you...

Answer 1

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber. Famous for being sad.
Ave Maria by Caccini. Again famous for being sad. They are all in You Tube. Take a look.
Edit: DAMMIT!!! YouTube doesn't work. I'm trying to get you the link for both.
EDIT 2: GOT IT!!!!!!
EDIT 3: HAVE FUN CRYING!!!!!! The Adagio is extremely melancholic!!!!!!

Answer 2

Saddest Classical Music

Answer 3

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Can't Live (If Living is Without You) - Harry Nillson The Rose by Bette Midler Crossroads by Don McLean Angel by Sarah MacLachlan More to come.....have to think and check my CD collection. ;) Added: The Green Fields of France (my version is by Golden Bough but there are other versions out there) This song was written about World War I, but if you change "green fields of France" to "brown desert of Iraq" it takes on a whole new meaning. (World War I, or The Great War, was supposed to be "the war to end all wars", which is what they are talking about at the end. Ironic, huh?) Lyrics: Well, how do you do, young Willie McBride? Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside? And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun I've been working all day and I'm nearly done. I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen When you joined that great calling in 1916. I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean, Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene? (chorus) Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fifes lowly? Did they play the Death March as they lowered you down? Did the band play the Last Post and Chorus? And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? Now did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind? In that faithful heart is your memory enshrined? Although you died back in 1916 In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen? Or are you a stranger without even a name? Enclosed and forever behind a glass frame In an old photograph, torn and battered and stained And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame? (chorus) The sun now it shines on the green fields of France There's warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance And see how the sun shines from under the clouds There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no guns firing now. But here in this graveyard it's still no man's land The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand To man's blind indifference to his fellow man, To a whole generation that was butchered and damned. (chorus) Now young Willie McBride, I can't help but wonder why Do those that lie here know why that they died? And did they believe when they answered the call Did they really believe that this war would end wars? The sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain The killing, the dying it was all done in vain. For young Willie McBride, it all happened again And again, and again, and again, and AGAIN. (chorus)

Answer 4

The Funderal March from Beethoven's 3rd Symphony.

There is a fugue in the middle of it that will tear you guts out. I've heard it a hundred times at it still gives me goosebumps.

Also the opening to Brahms 1st Symphony, with the constantly pulsing tympani and two musical lines straining away from each other in opposite directions.

Al debussy's selection of Barber's Adagio will also do it for you, or you are not human.

Answer 5

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Saddest classical song ever?
I am looking for a really sad *CLASSICAL* music song. I mean so sad, I will be crying until next tuesday.

Thank you...

Answer 6

It's not a song but Tchaikovsky's Symphony # 6 in b minor is pretty sad. For a song: "O Mio Babbino Caro,"

A similar question was asked a while ago and answered.

Answer 7

The saddest music for me that I still have trouble listening to in it's entirety is Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet. There is an array of emotions in this. You didn't say why you were looking? I suspect the answer lies in your own personal experience or in a shared experience.For instance, music that meant something special to someone close to you, that reminds you of them everytime you here it.
I hope you find what your looking for.

Answer 8

Come, Sweet Death by JS Bach
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
Adagio in G Minor by Albinoni

Answer 9

Although it's fairly modern as far as "classical" music goes, I'd suggest the Adagio from Spartacus and Phrygia. Maybe not the saddest, but it's all I could really think of off the top of my head.

Answer 10

For me, the three that immediately come to mind are:

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
The Death of Ase from the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg
Syrinx by Claude Debussy