most beautiful musical piece

[JD06]

hey guys what do you think the most beautiful piece of music ever written is?
e.g which one makes the hair on ur body stand up?
i wanted to make a poll but im sure my picks would be totally different from other peoples

for me without doubt is the finale for beethovens 9th symphony, in my opinion its one of the greatest things a human has created,!! b4 u die u have to listen to it with a live orchestra

[abientot]

Originally Posted by JD06

hey guys what do you think the most beautiful piece of music ever written is?
e.g which one makes the hair on ur body stand up?
i wanted to make a poll but im sure my picks would be totally different from other peoples

for me without doubt is the finale for beethovens 9th symphony, in my opinion its one of the greatest things a human has created,!! b4 u die u have to listen to it with a live orchestra

9th symphony is the best ever!!! i hope i get to listen to it with live orchestra!!

[Libnene Qu7]

Best piece ever is Barber's Adagio for Strings.

Best piece to watch live would have to be 1812 Overture.

[Stella]

Although my favourite classicals are: Vivaldi, Bach and Wagner, for the best piece ever I would nominate:

Hungarian Dance - Johannes Brahms Listen

/I am not too biased here:p/

[Fragrance of Roses]

Beethoven's 9th Symphony is great! One of the best though I am not sure it is my absolute favorite! There are other great pieces by Beethoven himself!

My problem with music is that I can never decide on an absolute favorite! I am not a fan of anything in particular especially when it comes to music... the range of what I like to listen to is very broad, and I cannot choose one thing and say it is my absolute favorite! Taste changes with need, mood, and time... It is all a matter of when, where, and what! (At least to me)

[Osiris]

Music!!

There are hundreds of great classical sad pieces..

Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte by Ravel is one of the saddest pieces ever, I can also think of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony (called "Pathetique"), Mahler's 5th and 9th Symphonies, Chopin's Nocturne, Gorecki's 3rd Symphony..

Finally, these are Alex' words from "A Clockwork Orange" about "Ludwig Van's 9th": "Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!"

[Thuggishh_E]

Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony & Beethoven's 9th symphony of course.
those 2 pieces are the best ones of all-time

[fpm_stanford]

Originally Posted by Osiris

Music!!

There are hundreds of great classical sad pieces..

Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte by Ravel is one of the saddest pieces ever, I can also think of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony (called "Pathetique"), Mahler's 5th and 9th Symphonies, Chopin's Nocturne, Gorecki's 3rd Symphony..

Finally, these are Alex' words from "A Clockwork Orange" about "Ludwig Van's 9th": "Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!"

very very very good choices (except for the ninth which i don't find really striking, unless i'm watching clockwork orange :p).

i would add many of schubert's chamber music pieces (mainly his last string quartet and the "death and the maiden" quartet), brahms' sonata for cello and piano, elgar's cello concerto, dvorak's cello concerto and slavonic dances #2 (there are 2 which are numbered "2" from different opus), and of course: rachmaninov's piano concertos (especially the 2nd!!!)

those are the first ones that come to mind.

[lubnani]

i will stray from the flock a bit, Richard Strauss' Thus spoke zarathustra, specially the overture, is a mighty fine piece of music
over all, i would qualify something like beethoven's 9th or mozart's 40th

[Angulimala]

Tan Dun's Musical Piece for Hero (movie) i thought was great. A story, within a story within a story, perhaps contemporary for some but its still something i would recommend.