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The one of Schumann was actually published as a stunning beautiful variation which titled as Geistervariationen, ghost variation, absolutely worthy to be listened deeply. It literally made me cry in the soul when I first time met it in the hardest time of my life. It concentrates so much of pain and beauty of his life, chaos and sensation as the serious schizophrenia patient, you can really hear how he identified his auditory hallucinations as a sweet but hurtful melody (in which was the ghost singing by his ear, according to Schmann), organized it into the music, and the music gradually broke down with his soul, crying, resisting, until the final you couldn't fight anymore, what left was a slight wrysmile.
@@bait5257 While there's a name out there, many accounts say that Mozart didn't know the commisioner and the messenger was a very mysterious man (Perhaps, just death having Mozart compose a Requiem for himself...
Actually a lot of them were on point Mozart : a requiem Schubert : extract of Swan Song Chopin : a Mazurka as a last farewell to his birth country Satie : A last Dance Grieg : In Heav'n above Liszt : Mephisto's Waltz They knew how to illustrate their death
The story goes that Bach was blind for the last few months of his life. One day, he called one of his sons into his room, saying excitedly that he could see again. Then he had him bring a pen and paper because he heard music. He dictated to his son what he was hearing in his head and then passed away shortly thereafter. That piece was this chorale. The story is almost certainly largely apocryphal but I still love it and think it really suits the piece it’s associated with.
So many of these seem as though their composers were still in their creative prime, with plenty of energy and ideas still left to share with the world. Even the oldest composers seemed so full of inspiration. That is except Mozart's Lacrimosa. Whereas many of these pieces could be seen as a celebration of life, Mozart's seems like a resignation and departure from music as much as it was from life. As an artist, he seemed to embody every emotion and feeling he had, and this was his last piece to share to the world about these complicated and nuanced feelings of what death and forgiveness felt like, and the result became one of the most iconic and chilling pieces in the classical repertoire, as a bitter and sobering reminder of an experience that we all await.
The lacrimosa takes part in mozart's Messa da requiem, a mass done for one's death (literally from latin "mass for rest"). It's almost as if death wrote it through him. At about half of the lacrimosa, mozart died and it is likely that a student of his took over and finished the lacrimosa and the rest of the requiem following mozart's instructions. Highly recommend listening to it, not only the lacrimosa but the whole requiem
Probably not "their creative prime" as cognition steadily declines through age (expecting a lack of excercise etc), so really theyre just so creative that it really doens't make much of a differences.
He composed many, much deeper and simplier and mainly more modern and depressive pieces after his last Mephisto waltz. For example Bagatele sans tonalité. It is supposed to be the 5th Mephisto waltz, and it sounds very futuristic. And even this wasn't his last piece at all.
@@complexideassimplifiedits not piano piece. Most piano arrangements are pretty doable, even by virtuosic composers. Source: i played thalberg's arrangement pretty well even though i suck
for some reason the fact that listz's last piece was mephisto waltz no 4 makes his death even more sad, atleast he got to live for a long time though, especially compared to all these other composers
@@chrismcdonald9120, this arrangement with robotic electronic piano sounding horribly compared with the many many symphonic performances of the adagio lamentoso you can find on u-tube .
@@keescanalfp5143 exactly, using the first movement would have been much better on a piano, the piano just cannot capture the feelings of the fourth movement, you need the strings for that
@@keescanalfp5143 I already have a recording I love to listen to, the entire symphony is one of my all time favorites, my original comment was more referencing an actual orchestra performance
"On the night of 17 February 1854, Schumann, suffering from severe aural hallucinations, claimed that he heard angels dictating a theme to him. If Clara Schumann’s diary entries are to be believed, Schumann immediately wrote down the theme, and on either 22 or 23 February started writing variations on it. At 2 in the afternoon of 27 February Schumann tried to drown himself in the icy Rhine; he was rescued by bargemen who dragged him ashore. The next day he returned to these variations and (it seems) completed them. He sent the work to Clara, but by then she had already left to stay with a friend at the advice of a doctor. On 4 March Schumann voluntarily committed himself to an asylum in Endenich, where he would die just a little over 2 years later."
It is a pity that Schubert only lived 31 years, but i love him the most. I can not stop asking myself what works he would achieve if he would have lived longer.
Satie's final work reminded me of an ending to a comedic movie. Satie was known to joke and be really satire so it's pretty fitting. He went out with a bang!
Schumann is one of those guys that truly deserve some hugs. You only know him as a catchy composer and with a few amazing tracks up his sleeve until you learn more about his life and what he did to himself and why...........
Agreed. I think his early death was the greatest of all losses in classical music. He was a peer of Mozart and Beethoven, and superior even to my beloved Brahms.
@@astghikkhumalyan3882They all composed Classical music. Schubert lived in the Classical Era, but composed a mix between Classical and Romantic style music. He is one of the transitional composers with a deeply personal style. All these composers composed what we call Classical music though. No matter if they are modernists, romantics, classicists, etc.
Beethoven last piece is such an interesting topic, the last thing he completed was his new final movement to opus 130, but Last Musical Thoughts is the last substantial thing he wrote (and the only way it survived was by a piano transcription that Diabelli made) Beethoven left many sketches throughout his life: 6th piano concerto, 10th symphony, oboe concerto (possibly lost), early versions of works, etc. We have luck that we have so many sketches to see, Mozart as examples didn't leave many sketches behind (and a part was destroyed by Constance) I think I got a little off the subject of the video, huh?
Yeah. I’ve heard speculations that since we have nothing of the original string quintet, maybe it was never really written by Beethoven at all, much like the Farewell to Piano that was once attributed to Beethoven but is now pretty universally thought to not be Beethoven’s work. And yeah, it’s nice to have so many Beethoven sketches. I know I plan on transcribing some of those sketches that I can find on IMSLP into MuseScore for the Classical Music Library I’m making with MuseScore, maybe even take a shot at completing some of them like the early C minor symphony sketch(not the Fifth Symphony sketches, but the one dating from before the First Symphony, the one with a Hess number)? I don’t know, I’m like having mixed feelings on completing Beethoven sketches. On the one hand, it would be nice to have more than just the sketch. On the other hand, I’d be afraid I’m taking too much from the middle period to really have a good completion of it. Of course, his middle period style elements do show up earlier in C minor pieces(Even his very first composition, 9 Variations on a March by Dressler, arguably has middle period style elements showing through), so maybe some Fifth Symphony influence in the completion of the early C minor symphony sketch wouldn’t be bad? I don’t know.
@@caterscarrots3407 About the quintet, it sounds very Beethovian in my opinion, but we know that he was composing until the end of 1826, and if what Schindler said about his last notes is real (march 1825), it's not impossible that he might really written something, also, although Diabelli indeed made a transcription, there's also some sketchy that are believed to be from the same quintet, I doubt that we'll ever find the truth about this though
@@caterscarrots3407 about completing his sketches, well let's be honest, Beethoven's garbage is the treasure of humanity, i think it's interesting to do and imagine how would he complete the pieces
@@caterscarrots3407 About Beethoven's middle style signs in his early compositions, is that he was he was trapped by the stylistic norms of the time, it's easy to see that he tried what he could to escape. (His piano concerto no. 0 is good examples of how much he could've been felt trapped, although it's a valuable way to see a bit more of the "Bonn style" )
0:03 Die Taubenpost, Franz Schubert. 0:51 Lacrimosa, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 1:39 String Quartet No.6, Op.80,IV.Finale: Allegro Molto, Felix Mendelssohn. 2:25 Mazurka in F Minor, Op.68,No.4, Frederic Chopin 3:09 Theme in E - flat Major, Robert Schumann. 3:37 Symphony No.6, Op.74,IV. Adagio Lamento, Ptoyr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. 4:33 Last Musical Thought, Ludwig Van Beethoven. 5:14 Relache, XXI Petite Danse Finale: La Queue du Chien, Erik Satie. 5:42 In Heav'n Above, Edvard Grieg. 6:16 Before Your Throne I Now Appear, Johann Sebastian Bach. 7:11 im not typing all of this, Joseph Haydn. 7:52 Mephisto Waltz No.4, Franz Liszt. 8:28 Tutti Gabbati!, Giuseppe Verdi. 9:09 Feuillet d'album, Op.169, Camille Saint - Saens. hope this helped!
Beethoven's last musical thought sounds victorious, as if he still didn't want to leave this world as he was ready to do great things, what I would have given to hear them. Satie's last piece sounds like ragtime since he was probably influenced by it, I guess you never know what to expect from certain composers. I'm glad that not all of the latest composers' pieces sound sad, I'm glad that not all the latest pieces by composers sound sad, it's not that I have anything against it, actually I imagined some of them like Chopin, Schumann, Grieg or Saint-Saëns playing them.
Heh, all of these are INCREDIBLE. I love Camille’s. It’s so impossible . All of these Camille’s wrote his first song at 3 years old. And end at 85 !!!!!!!!!!!! He’s so lucky.
Felix mendelssohn is like the final scene of his life while remembering his past day Chopin is like smoking and drinking at bar on a raining night Tchaikovsky is like remembering his young lifes, regret it and wish there is a tomorrow Beethoveen is like pure joy and no regret and still virgin forever
The "UnheardBeethoven" site says that his very last piece was an Instrumental Sketch, probably for the new finale of Op. 130 (the piece is an transcription for piano and its length is only about 4 seconds). It is catalogued as Bia. 849, the final Biamonti number of the catalogue and it was written in March 1827, ten or twelve days before his death.
i think my favorite final works are the adagio from Mahler's 10th and Berg's violin concerto. The former is famous for it's 10 note chord, a "scream of anguish" unprecedented in tonal music. Berg's final completed thoughts wound up causing him to leave Lulu unfinished, but he was spurred into writing his violin concerto "to the memory of an angel" after the passing of Alma Mahler-Gropius' 18 year old daughter, obviously unaware he would pass soon after. The music is dodecaphonic but the row is comprised of the open strings of the violin, filled in by thirds to create tonal implications. The final four notes of the row are an ascending whole tone scale which allows him to quote Bach's chorale setting of "Es ist genug". Very haunting moment of resignation and serenity. Webern was to conduct the premiere of the work shortly after Berg's passing, but for one reason or another was unable to go through with it, and the baton was passed to hermann scherchen.
The Adagio to Mahler's 10th is NOT his last music. He left a 2000 measure draft of the entire 5 movement Symphony, and there's every reason to believe that the glorious Finale was his last music. In any case, he sketched the entire symphony in July of 1910 but didn't die until May 18, 1911, so it wasn't written on his deathbed.
The final movement of Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony begins with the desperation that leads to the subject cutting his wrists and bleeding until his heart stops beating.
bach living to his 60s is incredible. most people back then didnt even make it to 40. what a miracle that he lived long enough to keep composing such a masterful body of music
he was average. The reason life expectancy was so low was because of infant mortality. If you lived past the age of 10 in those days you could reasonably expect to live into your sixties.
Schubert is one of my favorites too but not enough to qualify for "top fav" material. He's still awesome tho. He's one of the best in the romantic period.
Fun fact. Liszt's last completed piece was Unstern-sinister-disastro. Just saying. But I appreciate this idea and fact, that you included Lisztie. Our poor Franzi deserves attention. :'3❤️❤️❤️
Mephisto Waltz 4 has some completions, Liszt has many epic pieces but left unfinished, theres a second piece based on God Save the queen, or spanish song book, etc...
@@FranzLiszt0904 Oh yeah, many of them were unfinnished... Do you know why? It's actually pretty funny... Some stupid people kept stealing him parts of the scores. :')
Thankyou, I think we forget these composer's were going about their daily routine, still exploring musical possibilities, developing new work ideas , only to inconveniently die, I'm positive if they knew time's up, gentlemen, most if not all would be extremely annoyed. Great post.
I don’t think this was Beethoven’s last completed work. He didnt complete the String Quintet in C, someone else had to. Therefore his Grosse Fuge would be his last piece completed by Beethoven.
incorrect, his last completed work was a replacement finale for the Bb major string quartet for which the grosse fuge was originally the final movement.
Tchaikovsky’s final piece was his single movement third piano concerto, not the sixth symphony. The sixth symphony was the last to be premiered in his lifetime, but the last completed composition of his, his Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat Major, was written after the sixth symphony.
The Art of Fugue was left unfinished because Bach became blind and was unable to work with it, which means 1749 would be the date of Contrapunctus 14's (19 if you count the five canons) last bars. The chorale BWV 668 was actually composed years prior, possibly dating back to Weimar before he came to Leipzig. But the one shown in this video is a variant, BWV 668a, that Bach had orally notated in his deathbed in early 1750. This is a more complete version, and there is a wide consensus that this was Bach's very final musical piece.
Wow..just wow. What a great presentation for those who might seek to learn some of these seemingly straight forward keyboard excursions. Thanks so much. Each of these beloved members of the pantheon are not just represented but present, asking us to take them by the hands..and learn and play these eternal tunes.
A common mistake is the idea that Mozart's last piece is the requiem when in fact the last piece he had written before he died was his clarinet concerto. Look it up
You can hear how Mozart was haunted by death. And Chopin was already saying goodbye to this world, Tchaikovsky was already knowing he was going to die, it wasn't sad, it was pure void. But Felix was like "Death Ah Phooey" but he was proven wrong hahah.
A lot of these pieces have an abrupt end. Is that for the obvious reason - that they were still being written when the end came? It's amazing how young some of them died, having made a world name for themselves. Schubert, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Chopin didn't really have much time to do it!
@@AquaHeart I'm sure you're right - but what is being stressed here is the unexpected ending that these pieces have. There could be many reasons for that - it got tidied away by the wife, and was never found again; or - "the dog ate my homework!" - or, the question I alluded to - were these the last notes that the composer ever wrote?
Except he didn’t even write most of it. He only wrote the first 8 bars and his student wrote the rest. I personally think the first 8 bars rlly are the best part tho.
Edit of my previous comment: I am sorry to say, but I am deeply dissapointed and disgusted by the fact, that 1) Mephisto waltz no.4 wasn't his last composition at all. 2) this claim is highly dissrespectful since it again, as people like, makes from Liszt just a common showman. I really wonder how many people here know something more than just that he was showman? You all should know how tragic his life actually was. And in bonus you should know, that all of his late compositions were sarcastical, ironical or just so horribly dark and depressive, that I am sometimes just not able to finish them. And I am not even going to talk about his actual last composition. The already mentioned Unstern!. (Oh yes, it's written with that Exclamation mark) Well, I hope I was clear. I don't want to be rude or make bad critics. That's not my point at all. I just want to let other people know that Liszt wasn't just a piano smasher. Please. If you have time, read something about him. I guarrant you, that he was one of the sweetest and kindest people who ever lived and he really deserves love and also to be remembered.❤
You are oh so right! He was a showman for sure. But also a great pianist, composer. Devoted friend. A philantopist, generous teacher (his masterclasses were free) also I believe he invented this type of mentoring... Helped people in need in and outside of the art world. Devoted catholic and so many more!
@@andreavoros-marky4203 Exactly, my friend 😭 (omg, I have read so many books about him. By Walker and the others... It irritates me So much that only me and few other people know the truth. :'3 Nagyon örülök that you know it as well❤️)
pretty cool! do you also have a list of famous composers's first compositions (with age). that would be a nice counter to this one :) of course John Willimas in 90 and stilll composing. someday it would be ineresting to see just how long he compses for. i say he compses til age 117
@@kiine7736 he said the same thing 2 years ago that it was going t be his last about somethin gelse. then he came out of retrimenet to do this. so who knows?
I'm in love with Franz Liszt's song. "Mephisto Waltz No.4". It is so massive and intensive. But it's ridiculously bad that Franz Liszt my favourite composer who died. Right? If anyone yes please tell yes or give a like.
In my opinion as as a known composer myself a classical piano composer I feel that JS Bach Mozart Beethoven and Chopin were grade A composers many will disagree with me and that's okay because we all have our own opinions Scarlatti Schubert Mendelssohn Schumann just didn't have the genius that Bach Mozart and Chopin had I don't like their music I feel these composer's music was lost forever it would be no loss whatsoever but if we lost all the music from Bach Vivaldi Handel Mozart Beethoven Chopin Debussy it would be a gigantic loss to the world just my opinion
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It's time to listen to the last works by some of the greatest classical composers! What's your favorite last work?
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Either Mozart's Lacrimosa or Chopin's Mazurek.
The one of Schumann was actually published as a stunning beautiful variation which titled as Geistervariationen, ghost variation, absolutely worthy to be listened deeply.
It literally made me cry in the soul when I first time met it in the hardest time of my life. It concentrates so much of pain and beauty of his life, chaos and sensation as the serious schizophrenia patient, you can really hear how he identified his auditory hallucinations as a sweet but hurtful melody (in which was the ghost singing by his ear, according to Schmann), organized it into the music, and the music gradually broke down with his soul, crying, resisting, until the final you couldn't fight anymore, what left was a slight wrysmile.
Liszt
definitely is Bach's"Die Kunst der Fuge" Contrapunctus 14 "BACH" subject😇
You can hear how Mozart was haunted by death. And Chopin was already saying goodbye to this world, it wasn't sad, it was pure void.
Bro it's literally a requiem. That was the theme
Lacrimosa wasn't written by Mozart. Mozart died before he even finished the second movement
@@daviddinoger Mozart died after he 8th bar of Lacrimosa. Everything after 45-60 seconds was his student
@@bait5257 While there's a name out there, many accounts say that Mozart didn't know the commisioner and the messenger was a very mysterious man (Perhaps, just death having Mozart compose a Requiem for himself...
@@daviddinoger Dude, the best part of lacrimosa was by Mozart stfu
How appropriate the last piece Bach wrote before he died was "Before Your Throne I Now Appear".
Bruh I didn't even realize that
Actually a lot of them were on point
Mozart : a requiem
Schubert : extract of Swan Song
Chopin : a Mazurka as a last farewell to his birth country
Satie : A last Dance
Grieg : In Heav'n above
Liszt : Mephisto's Waltz
They knew how to illustrate their death
It wasn't. It was BWV 1080 The Art of Fugue
fuga a 3 sogetti feels like the real final bach piece
The story goes that Bach was blind for the last few months of his life. One day, he called one of his sons into his room, saying excitedly that he could see again. Then he had him bring a pen and paper because he heard music. He dictated to his son what he was hearing in his head and then passed away shortly thereafter. That piece was this chorale. The story is almost certainly largely apocryphal but I still love it and think it really suits the piece it’s associated with.
So many of these seem as though their composers were still in their creative prime, with plenty of energy and ideas still left to share with the world. Even the oldest composers seemed so full of inspiration. That is except Mozart's Lacrimosa. Whereas many of these pieces could be seen as a celebration of life, Mozart's seems like a resignation and departure from music as much as it was from life. As an artist, he seemed to embody every emotion and feeling he had, and this was his last piece to share to the world about these complicated and nuanced feelings of what death and forgiveness felt like, and the result became one of the most iconic and chilling pieces in the classical repertoire, as a bitter and sobering reminder of an experience that we all await.
Same applies for Tchaikovsky's
@@antoniozavaldski and Chopin's sounds like a goodbye
The lacrimosa takes part in mozart's Messa da requiem, a mass done for one's death (literally from latin "mass for rest"). It's almost as if death wrote it through him. At about half of the lacrimosa, mozart died and it is likely that a student of his took over and finished the lacrimosa and the rest of the requiem following mozart's instructions. Highly recommend listening to it, not only the lacrimosa but the whole requiem
Probably not "their creative prime" as cognition steadily declines through age (expecting a lack of excercise etc), so really theyre just so creative that it really doens't make much of a differences.
Chopin’s last piece really sounds like a final sigh of life..💔 Same goes for Tchaikovsky
Tchaiksovky's is really sad given that he killed himself shortly after they Premiere
@@brianbrennaman5655 Some people even thought the government ordered to kill himself because of his homosexuality
@@brianbrennaman5655 not confirmed tho, although I do believe he did
Tbf, iirc,Chopin died without air
Edit: I may be dumb but yeah
I think the story goes that he was forced to "kill himself" by the secret police after they intercepted some mail which proved he was gay
It is a shame that a lot of these great composers died so early. Imagine the pieces they could have created later in life.
Oh yes? Is there a reason
back then, being a musician wasnt a great life choice. it was an unstable job and led many famous ones into debt.
@@kininiwong5350 it’s not a great life choice nowadays either, unless you’re especially talented, and even then it doesn’t always go how you’d hope.
@@Swamp72 listen to this guy, better explaining
I can't imagine them, because they haven't been created.
Love how every composer has a rather simple last composition and then theres liszt at 73 years old with mephisto waltz no.4 😆
He composed many, much deeper and simplier and mainly more modern and depressive pieces after his last Mephisto waltz. For example Bagatele sans tonalité. It is supposed to be the 5th Mephisto waltz, and it sounds very futuristic. And even this wasn't his last piece at all.
And that’s his easiest Mephisto waltz 😂
Lacrimosa is not simple when played as intended.
@@complexideassimplifiedits not piano piece. Most piano arrangements are pretty doable, even by virtuosic composers. Source: i played thalberg's arrangement pretty well even though i suck
for some reason the fact that listz's last piece was mephisto waltz no 4 makes his death even more sad, atleast he got to live for a long time though, especially compared to all these other composers
How has no one mentioned the Tchaikovsky? The last movement of that symphony is absolutely heartbreaking
Tchaikovsky was mentioned 3:38
@@mypianoschat9475 ik he was in the video, I'm just wondering why there's almost no comments about him
@@chrismcdonald9120,
this arrangement with robotic electronic piano sounding horribly compared with the many many symphonic performances of the adagio lamentoso you can find on u-tube .
@@keescanalfp5143 exactly, using the first movement would have been much better on a piano, the piano just cannot capture the feelings of the fourth movement, you need the strings for that
@@keescanalfp5143 I already have a recording I love to listen to, the entire symphony is one of my all time favorites, my original comment was more referencing an actual orchestra performance
If Lacrimosa was Mozart last piece, he was in such a genius phase of his creative life.
How many masterpieces we lost 😢
The Requiem itself was the final piece but was left unfinished when he died
Listen to the original chorale arrangement which is mindblowing. Then listen to his Kyrie from the Mass in C Minor
@@justinnoble6506 from which one?
#nootnoot
Saint-Saëns' last piece moves my heart so deeply. A bit like a lullaby for the long slumber... 🖤
Definitely the best for me
"On the night of 17 February 1854, Schumann, suffering from severe aural hallucinations, claimed that he heard angels dictating a theme to him. If Clara Schumann’s diary entries are to be believed, Schumann immediately wrote down the theme, and on either 22 or 23 February started writing variations on it. At 2 in the afternoon of 27 February Schumann tried to drown himself in the icy Rhine; he was rescued by bargemen who dragged him ashore. The next day he returned to these variations and (it seems) completed them. He sent the work to Clara, but by then she had already left to stay with a friend at the advice of a doctor. On 4 March Schumann voluntarily committed himself to an asylum in Endenich, where he would die just a little over 2 years later."
His wife did live a long life and lived to compose more music.
It is a pity that Schubert only lived 31 years, but i love him the most. I can not stop asking myself what works he would achieve if he would have lived longer.
100% agree with you!
Lacrosima by mozart is definietly my favourite
It's no surprise that it's been used in film and t v so much, fantastic piece
You too
It's called lacrimosa, not lacrosima
Mozart only composed the first eight bars of the Lacrymosa Movement
#nootnoot
Satie's final work reminded me of an ending to a comedic movie. Satie was known to joke and be really satire so it's pretty fitting. He went out with a bang!
Agreed.
agreed
He was *Sati* r *e*
@@Antimonuu sati rush eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Good example: When talking about Debussy's 'From Dawn Till Noon On the Sea,' Satie quipped, 'I like the part at ten forty-five.
Schumann is one of those guys that truly deserve some hugs. You only know him as a catchy composer and with a few amazing tracks up his sleeve until you learn more about his life and what he did to himself and why...........
1:13 man. This is the first time I’ve heard Mozart’s Requiem on piano,, the chord progression in this… wow.
it's just la folia?
@@兄さんit's not lol
@@兄さん wait that’s crazy I hear it. That’s funny.
Schubert's early death at the age of 31 is so sad! Like in his tombstone " "Music has here buried a rich treasure, But much fairer hopes"
Agreed. I think his early death was the greatest of all losses in classical music. He was a peer of Mozart and Beethoven, and superior even to my beloved Brahms.
@@tomyamartino Sorry he wasn’t classical composer he was my romantic man
@@astghikkhumalyan3882They all composed Classical music. Schubert lived in the Classical Era, but composed a mix between Classical and Romantic style music. He is one of the transitional composers with a deeply personal style.
All these composers composed what we call Classical music though. No matter if they are modernists, romantics, classicists, etc.
Liszt’s son died at age 20
Beethoven last piece is such an interesting topic, the last thing he completed was his new final movement to opus 130, but Last Musical Thoughts is the last substantial thing he wrote (and the only way it survived was by a piano transcription that Diabelli made)
Beethoven left many sketches throughout his life: 6th piano concerto, 10th symphony, oboe concerto (possibly lost), early versions of works, etc. We have luck that we have so many sketches to see, Mozart as examples didn't leave many sketches behind (and a part was destroyed by Constance)
I think I got a little off the subject of the video, huh?
Yeah. I’ve heard speculations that since we have nothing of the original string quintet, maybe it was never really written by Beethoven at all, much like the Farewell to Piano that was once attributed to Beethoven but is now pretty universally thought to not be Beethoven’s work. And yeah, it’s nice to have so many Beethoven sketches. I know I plan on transcribing some of those sketches that I can find on IMSLP into MuseScore for the Classical Music Library I’m making with MuseScore, maybe even take a shot at completing some of them like the early C minor symphony sketch(not the Fifth Symphony sketches, but the one dating from before the First Symphony, the one with a Hess number)?
I don’t know, I’m like having mixed feelings on completing Beethoven sketches. On the one hand, it would be nice to have more than just the sketch. On the other hand, I’d be afraid I’m taking too much from the middle period to really have a good completion of it. Of course, his middle period style elements do show up earlier in C minor pieces(Even his very first composition, 9 Variations on a March by Dressler, arguably has middle period style elements showing through), so maybe some Fifth Symphony influence in the completion of the early C minor symphony sketch wouldn’t be bad? I don’t know.
@@caterscarrots3407 It's Hess 298
@@caterscarrots3407 About the quintet, it sounds very Beethovian in my opinion, but we know that he was composing until the end of 1826, and if what Schindler said about his last notes is real (march 1825), it's not impossible that he might really written something, also, although Diabelli indeed made a transcription, there's also some sketchy that are believed to be from the same quintet, I doubt that we'll ever find the truth about this though
@@caterscarrots3407 about completing his sketches, well let's be honest, Beethoven's garbage is the treasure of humanity, i think it's interesting to do and imagine how would he complete the pieces
@@caterscarrots3407 About Beethoven's middle style signs in his early compositions, is that he was he was trapped by the stylistic norms of the time, it's easy to see that he tried what he could to escape. (His piano concerto no. 0 is good examples of how much he could've been felt trapped, although it's a valuable way to see a bit more of the "Bonn style" )
0:03 Die Taubenpost, Franz Schubert.
0:51 Lacrimosa, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
1:39 String Quartet No.6, Op.80,IV.Finale: Allegro Molto, Felix Mendelssohn.
2:25 Mazurka in F Minor, Op.68,No.4, Frederic Chopin
3:09 Theme in E - flat Major, Robert Schumann.
3:37 Symphony No.6, Op.74,IV. Adagio Lamento, Ptoyr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
4:33 Last Musical Thought, Ludwig Van Beethoven.
5:14 Relache, XXI Petite Danse Finale: La Queue du Chien, Erik Satie.
5:42 In Heav'n Above, Edvard Grieg.
6:16 Before Your Throne I Now Appear, Johann Sebastian Bach.
7:11 im not typing all of this, Joseph Haydn.
7:52 Mephisto Waltz No.4, Franz Liszt.
8:28 Tutti Gabbati!, Giuseppe Verdi.
9:09 Feuillet d'album, Op.169, Camille Saint - Saens.
hope this helped!
I’m not typing all of this 💀
How could they compose so much beautiful music in such short life spans? So amazing.
Beethoven's last musical thought sounds victorious, as if he still didn't want to leave this world as he was ready to do great things, what I would have given to hear them.
Satie's last piece sounds like ragtime since he was probably influenced by it, I guess you never know what to expect from certain composers.
I'm glad that not all of the latest composers' pieces sound sad, I'm glad that not all the latest pieces by composers sound sad, it's not that I have anything against it, actually I imagined some of them like Chopin, Schumann, Grieg or Saint-Saëns playing them.
Lets give respect to Beethoven even he lost his hearing but still he can make such a beautiful piece
Heh, all of these are INCREDIBLE. I love Camille’s. It’s so impossible . All of these Camille’s wrote his first song at 3 years old. And end at 85 !!!!!!!!!!!! He’s so lucky.
He was composing pieces for 82 years
Verdi died at age 88
2:39 I think the fact that Chopin's last piece was a mazurka shows his love for Poland.
Yes indeed, he truly loved his country until the end
(By the way correct form is mazurek not mazurka)
Felix mendelssohn is like the final scene of his life while remembering his past day
Chopin is like smoking and drinking at bar on a raining night
Tchaikovsky is like remembering his young lifes, regret it and wish there is a tomorrow
Beethoveen is like pure joy and no regret and still virgin forever
Beethoven and Erik's Last Work Represents "Don't be Sad I'm Gone, just appreciate I lived"
Schumann’s story when he wrote the Ghost Variations was so tragic.
Imagine if Chopin lived to be 80 years old
True, we can assume that his peak compositions would be yet to come.
I often imagine the same thing. Just think, another Ballade another Scherzo or Sonata. 😢
Imagine how many more beautiful pieces he might have written 😩😩😩
Imagine if he didn't burn most of his pieces
"Dear Pianists you shall know pain"
I have heard there is a debate whether Chopin's last piece was this Mazurka in F minor, or one in G minor
Wonderful idea and collection. Verdi's last work was his Stabat Mater of 1897.
Bach sounds like heaven, Mozart definition of Death
Tchaikovsky heartbreaking.
And Liszt sounds like hell
YES
That Saint Saens was overwhelming
Update this video, Mozart released his last song recently
Not correct. What was found was a work from his youth.
@@deltalitprof I'm making a joke
Beethoven's last official (completed) work was the new finale for String Quartet Opus 130. The work stated here is a mere fragment.
The "UnheardBeethoven" site says that his very last piece was an Instrumental Sketch, probably for the new finale of Op. 130 (the piece is an transcription for piano and its length is only about 4 seconds). It is catalogued as Bia. 849, the final Biamonti number of the catalogue and it was written in March 1827, ten or twelve days before his death.
What is great compilation! This channel deserves more promotion. Good work!
i think my favorite final works are the adagio from Mahler's 10th and Berg's violin concerto. The former is famous for it's 10 note chord, a "scream of anguish" unprecedented in tonal music. Berg's final completed thoughts wound up causing him to leave Lulu unfinished, but he was spurred into writing his violin concerto "to the memory of an angel" after the passing of Alma Mahler-Gropius' 18 year old daughter, obviously unaware he would pass soon after. The music is dodecaphonic but the row is comprised of the open strings of the violin, filled in by thirds to create tonal implications. The final four notes of the row are an ascending whole tone scale which allows him to quote Bach's chorale setting of "Es ist genug". Very haunting moment of resignation and serenity. Webern was to conduct the premiere of the work shortly after Berg's passing, but for one reason or another was unable to go through with it, and the baton was passed to hermann scherchen.
The Adagio to Mahler's 10th is NOT his last music. He left a 2000 measure draft of the entire 5 movement Symphony, and there's every reason to believe that the glorious Finale was his last music. In any case, he sketched the entire symphony in July of 1910 but didn't die until May 18, 1911, so it wasn't written on his deathbed.
Liszt went out with a bang
And what a wonder piece for bach to go out with
And where is rachmaninoff
Even if I hadn't known these were their last compositions, I would say that each selection was gripping, yet profoundly saddening.
The final movement of Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony begins with the desperation that leads to the subject cutting his wrists and bleeding until his heart stops beating.
bach living to his 60s is incredible. most people back then didnt even make it to 40. what a miracle that he lived long enough to keep composing such a masterful body of music
he was average. The reason life expectancy was so low was because of infant mortality. If you lived past the age of 10 in those days you could reasonably expect to live into your sixties.
Video is out of date mozart just came back to drop a new piece.
Mozart's Lacrimosa as his last composition is a legend - his actual last work on the Requiem is the Hostias et preces
Nice. Now make first pieces by 14 great classical composers
The Saint Saens piece was very beautiful ❤
Schubert is my favourite composer It's very sad to me to see that from the all composers he is the younger who died....
me too, I was wondering why he came out frist instead of Bach, until I saw other people's age...🥲
I'd say Chopin.
@@pacifist1360 Chopin died when he was 39, but Schubert died when he was 31
Schubert is one of my favorites too but not enough to qualify for "top fav" material. He's still awesome tho. He's one of the best in the romantic period.
@@kidkrowtaylor.ৎWho is your favorite composer?
Fun fact. Liszt's last completed piece was Unstern-sinister-disastro. Just saying. But I appreciate this idea and fact, that you included Lisztie. Our poor Franzi deserves attention. :'3❤️❤️❤️
Mephisto Waltz 4 has some completions, Liszt has many epic pieces but left unfinished, theres a second piece based on God Save the queen, or spanish song book, etc...
@@FranzLiszt0904 Oh yeah, many of them were unfinnished... Do you know why? It's actually pretty funny... Some stupid people kept stealing him parts of the scores. :')
@@drajanacz.1376 Could be abandoned, maybe that or even not enough time
@@FranzLiszt0904 Of course. But not only that. As I say. This happened pretty often.
Mozart's Lacrimosa was the most saddest music piece 😢😢
Listening to these masterpieces ,
the troublesome affairs of the mundane world is washed away
I like the way you ordered them in by age at death.
Camille saint-saens last sonata literaly sound like the best end game credit melody ever made.
Lacrimose is one of my favorite words, and Lacrimosa is one of my favorite pieces.
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What an interesting video. Can you do Ravel's music evolution next??
and satie
Schubert, Mendelssohn are very unique and underrated
Such a beautiful, poignant and moving video!!!! So sad especially that these great composers left us too soon!!! 😭💜
I always thought Art of the Fugue was Bach's last piece. It is still eerie how it just stops.
Thankyou, I think we forget these composer's were going about their daily routine, still exploring musical possibilities, developing new work ideas , only to inconveniently die, I'm positive if they knew time's up, gentlemen, most if not all would be extremely annoyed.
Great post.
I don’t think this was Beethoven’s last completed work. He didnt complete the String Quintet in C, someone else had to. Therefore his Grosse Fuge would be his last piece completed by Beethoven.
incorrect, his last completed work was a replacement finale for the Bb major string quartet for which the grosse fuge was originally the final movement.
Verdi did compose several more pieces after Falstaff.
Tchaikovsky’s final piece was his single movement third piano concerto, not the sixth symphony. The sixth symphony was the last to be premiered in his lifetime, but the last completed composition of his, his Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat Major, was written after the sixth symphony.
Beethoven, Mozart and Seans are my favorite composers
I find that the most beautiful music in the classicals are the simplest ones
But… the last thing Bach wrote was the last movement from “The art of Fugue”. I mean, it’s even unfinished because he died.
Iirc, actually he left unfinished some years before his death (he was going blind)
@@HikikoSunny01 it's often thought that he left it on purpose. As a way to encourage others to attempt to finish it
@@spittyllama5902 It's a possibility
The Art of Fugue was left unfinished because Bach became blind and was unable to work with it, which means 1749 would be the date of Contrapunctus 14's (19 if you count the five canons) last bars.
The chorale BWV 668 was actually composed years prior, possibly dating back to Weimar before he came to Leipzig. But the one shown in this video is a variant, BWV 668a, that Bach had orally notated in his deathbed in early 1750. This is a more complete version, and there is a wide consensus that this was Bach's very final musical piece.
@@thisistopsy Yup
How ironic: Liszt had become a priest and his last work was about the Devil.
yeah this was by far _not_ his last one .
Wow..just wow. What a great presentation for those who might seek to learn some of these seemingly straight forward keyboard excursions. Thanks so much. Each of these beloved members of the pantheon are not just represented but present, asking us to take them by the hands..and learn and play these eternal tunes.
How depressing is the last Chopin Mazurka. Unique composer.
Love how Schubert’s starts with “Die”.
Nice that you included _Falstaff!_ Such an amazing, ferocious comedy.
I love how random and fun the falstaff is.
Are we going to skip over Saint-Saens? He had such a long career and this piece is the last cherry on top, and Grieg's, and Schumann's.
Verdi really said " If I'm going out I'm goin out with a bang!!
so happy to see mendelssohn in this video!
Lacrimosa always makes me cry😭
I Like Mendelssohn And Chopin,But Chopin's Last Piece Is Sad.
A common mistake is the idea that Mozart's last piece is the requiem when in fact the last piece he had written before he died was his clarinet concerto. Look it up
That's his final completed composition. Mozart was essentially clenching a pen and the manuscript for his own Requiem when he died.
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What=a fight
Why do people so confidently offer false information on social media? Could you provide some insight into this?
Somebody Give Beethoven an Oscar with this Last Piece Named "Last Musical thought or Letzer Musikalischer Gedanke"
Wonderful! I'd like to hear more of these, please!
I will make a channel to play many piano pieces the channel called franz Mustafa
What about Camille saint Saens he wrote such a beatiful melody why hasn’t no one talked about his
You can hear how Mozart was haunted by death. And Chopin was already saying goodbye to this world, Tchaikovsky was already knowing he was going to die, it wasn't sad, it was pure void. But Felix was like "Death Ah Phooey" but he was proven wrong hahah.
So many of them died so young. How tragic!
Beethoven is still joking around until the end❤
A lot of these pieces have an abrupt end. Is that for the obvious reason - that they were still being written when the end came?
It's amazing how young some of them died, having made a world name for themselves. Schubert, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Chopin didn't really have much time to do it!
Pretty sure these are all just excerpts, not the full pieces.
@@AquaHeart I'm sure you're right - but what is being stressed here is the unexpected ending that these pieces have. There could be many reasons for that - it got tidied away by the wife, and was never found again; or - "the dog ate my homework!" - or, the question I alluded to - were these the last notes that the composer ever wrote?
It's not a piano piece it's literally a outro song for them
いろんなことを経験していろんな事を悟った、それぞれの人生の厚みを感じます
This saint saens piece is so poetic!
descansen en paz esos grandes maestros.
Mozart's last piece is probably the best one.
Except he didn’t even write most of it. He only wrote the first 8 bars and his student wrote the rest. I personally think the first 8 bars rlly are the best part tho.
@@glad57 He wrote until "judicandus homos reus"
Not sure if it's bar 8, but the video shows until this part anyway
@@glad57 what about the rest of the Requiem before Lacrimosa? is that not a masterpiece?
Edit of my previous comment: I am sorry to say, but I am deeply dissapointed and disgusted by the fact, that 1) Mephisto waltz no.4 wasn't his last composition at all.
2) this claim is highly dissrespectful since it again, as people like, makes from Liszt just a common showman. I really wonder how many people here know something more than just that he was showman? You all should know how tragic his life actually was. And in bonus you should know, that all of his late compositions were sarcastical, ironical or just so horribly dark and depressive, that I am sometimes just not able to finish them. And I am not even going to talk about his actual last composition. The already mentioned Unstern!. (Oh yes, it's written with that Exclamation mark)
Well, I hope I was clear. I don't want to be rude or make bad critics. That's not my point at all. I just want to let other people know that Liszt wasn't just a piano smasher. Please. If you have time, read something about him. I guarrant you, that he was one of the sweetest and kindest people who ever lived and he really deserves love and also to be remembered.❤
You are oh so right!
He was a showman for sure.
But also a great pianist, composer. Devoted friend. A philantopist, generous teacher (his masterclasses were free) also I believe he invented this type of mentoring...
Helped people in need in and outside of the art world.
Devoted catholic and so many more!
@@andreavoros-marky4203 Exactly, my friend 😭 (omg, I have read so many books about him. By Walker and the others... It irritates me So much that only me and few other people know the truth. :'3 Nagyon örülök that you know it as well❤️)
@@drajanacz.1376 Well it is kinda a must for me being Hungarian and all. 😉
I must admit, all of these music pieces sound quite nice
pretty cool! do you also have a list of famous composers's first compositions (with age). that would be a nice counter to this one :)
of course John Willimas in 90 and stilll composing. someday it would be ineresting to see just how long he compses for. i say he compses til age 117
John Williams said that he'll retire after the new Indiana Jones movie. Meaning that'll be his last composition.
@@kiine7736 he said the same thing 2 years ago that it was going t be his last about somethin gelse. then he came out of retrimenet to do this. so who knows?
@John Adams well, honestly, at 90 it'd be better for him to retire. I'm pretty sure that he's gonna retire now. But who knows.
Long live the honorary Jedi!
I'm in love with Franz Liszt's song. "Mephisto Waltz No.4". It is so massive and intensive. But it's ridiculously bad that Franz Liszt my favourite composer who died. Right? If anyone yes please tell yes or give a like.
Liszt might be onto something (also to note most composers have many unfinished projects upon their death, including Bach's Art of Fugue)
Can’t thank you enough for including Satie ❤
가장 일찍 죽은 작곡가와 가장 늦게 죽은 작곡가의 곡 분위기가 둘 다 평화롭다는 것이 나는 흥미롭다.
Brilliant. Thank you❤
where's rachmaninoff? >:(
good video though, I genuinely appreciated it
In my opinion as as a known composer myself a classical piano composer I feel that JS Bach Mozart Beethoven and Chopin were grade A composers many will disagree with me and that's okay because we all have our own opinions Scarlatti Schubert Mendelssohn Schumann just didn't have the genius that Bach Mozart and Chopin had I don't like their music I feel these composer's music was lost forever it would be no loss whatsoever but if we lost all the music from Bach Vivaldi Handel Mozart Beethoven Chopin Debussy it would be a gigantic loss to the world just my opinion
You can't overlook Wagner, Strauss or Tchaikovsky like that come on
Mephisto waltz sounds like Dragonforce if they were around in the 19th century.
Tchaikovsky actually wrote his single movement Piano Concerto No. 3 before he died, it was taken from ideas for his 7th Symphony.
Beethoven : I'm always with you through my music, so don't be sad (•‿•)
It's fitting that Satie's last piece is called "A last dance"