What Is the Greatest Musical Work of All Time?

3/1/2006 | Reaganesque

[Reaganesque]

I was sitting here tonight listening to Mozart's Requiem and I got to thinking: what do I consider to be the best work of music ever? For my part, Mozart's work really does the trick for me when I need to be re-energized. Therefore, I believe that his Requiem is the greatest work of all time. There just isn't another work that is as powerful and passionate. When the chorus sings the final "Amen" at the end of "Lacrimosa" I get the feeling that he knew it was the last thing he would ever write. It gives me chills at times.

Other favorites are:

Handel's Messiah

The 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky

[rmh47]

I guess that would depend on who is making the list, because nothing you mentioned would make it on my list anywhere in the top 500.

If that is so, then we have very different tastes in music.

I can see by your tag line that we agree on some things, however. Check out mine.

[Rte66]

Love Gaudeamus Igitur -- but I think of it in relation to Mario Lanza and "Student Prince." Don't they sing it as a group in the movie, maybe leading into "Golden Days"?

"Golden days, in the sunshine of our happy youth ... full of innocence and full of truth ... in our hearts, we remember them all else above ... golden days, days of youth and love."

Or maybe "Drink, drink, let the toasts start ... may young hearts never part ... drink drink drink, let every true lover salute his sweetheart ... let's drink!"

Not to overlook "Serenade" -- " ... overhead the moon is beaming, white as blossoms on the bough ... nothing is heard but the song of a bird, filling all the air with sweetness ..." *aaahhh*

[Cronos]

Hmmm... the Star Wars soundtrack, Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Bizet's Habanera from Carmen, Beethoven's 5th, Blue Danube, definitely the Messiah,

[albyjimc2]

Awake was also an incredible album. But Scenes From a Memory just came together so well. Other than Change of Seasons the song Home from Scenes was in my opnion one of their greatest.

What did you think of Train of Thought?

[JavaTheHutt]

If that is so, then we have very different tastes in music.

Well, to be fare and honest, I'm just not capable of appreciating the quality of clasical music. Too much time spent in combat zones over the last 15 years has left me with a persistant ringing in the ears. I can't hear a lot of high notes, just the lower bass tones, which tend to drown out the lyrics being sung.

I do have a lot of fun times listening to music, and trying to figure out what the heck it is they are singing. My wife is always cracking up when I ask her to clarify something I thought I heard in a song.

[CrazyIvan]

Everytime I try to play Steely Dan I get the impression that nobody appreciates it.

I know what you mean. I was trying to explain to my stepson how they blended some Western music into "With A Gun" for a touch of irony. Especially when the weapon is a Luger, about as far as you can get from a western weapon. I finally gave up.

[jimfree]

Sing, Sing, Sing

Benny Goodman and his orchestra

[Cacique]

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