Last Pieces by 14 Great Classical Composers

It's time to listen to the last works by some of the greatest classical composers! What's your favorite last work? ♫ Sheet Music (Mozart - Lacrimosa | Different Version): tinyurl.com/4hzcuctv * ♫ Sheet Music (Chopin - Mazurka in F minor, Op. 68, No. 4): tinyurl.com/nhcdy58y * * Affiliate Link

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.

Love how every composer has a rather simple last composition and then theres liszt at 73 years old with mephisto waltz no.4 😆

How appropriate the last piece Bach wrote before he died was "Before Your Throne I Now Appear".

It is a shame that a lot of these great composers died so early. Imagine the pieces they could have created later in life.

Chopin’s last piece really sounds like a final sigh of life..💔 Same goes for Tchaikovsky

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.

How has no one mentioned the Tchaikovsky? The last movement of that symphony is absolutely heartbreaking

If Lacrimosa was Mozart last piece, he was in such a genius phase of his creative life. How many masterpieces we lost 😢

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.

Saint-Saëns' last piece moves my heart so deeply. A bit like a lullaby for the long slumber... 🖤

"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."

Lacrosima by mozart is definietly my favourite

Imagine if Chopin lived to be 80 years old

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!

1:13 man. This is the first time I’ve heard Mozart’s Requiem on piano,, the chord progression in this… wow.

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"

What is great compilation! This channel deserves more promotion. Good work!

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.

Schumann’s story when he wrote the Ghost Variations was so tragic.