Strauss Polka

Top 20 Most Favorite Pieces by Well-Known Composers 20 - Britten's "Peter Grimes" 19 - Offenbach's "Can Can" 18 - Haydn's "Symphony No. 94 in G Major "Surprise"" 17 - Gossec's "Gavotte an Tambourin" 16 - Handel's "Hallelujah" 15 - Bizet's "Carmen: Toreador Song" 14 - Schubert's "Ave Maria" 13 - Chopin's "Nocturne in E flat Major" 12 - Vivaldi's "Summer, Winter" 11 - Pachelbel's "Canon in D" 10-1st place later

@@MikKaellion | Good list, i love Gavotte too

@@ShadowCXC-ok4ff wait theres more

@@MikKaellion | Yes but is something a little weird, i haven't heard much people talking about that piece

Same here

Beethoven's happiest piece and most joyful classical music ode to joy ' 1:36 ' is in d minor the most saddest and depressing key compare it to Mozart's dies irae and lacrimosa, Handel's sarabande and bach's toccata and fugue which are also in d minor

probably the happiest work by Mozart is the Le Nozze di Figaro Overture and by Brahms is the Hungarian Dance No. 6. Likewise, I think that the finale of that same Liszt Rhapsody is much happier, and even euphoric, slightly surpassing in that aspect to the second.

@@passwordsecurity8900 This might disappoint you... I am very sorry to say: the Ode to Joy is in D *major*. The symphony starts in D minor, that is its tonic, but it modulates on that movement

@@orangecloudsonanindigoblue9786 I agree with everything

@@Henri.d.Olivoir haha nice discovering,maybe mozart's most happiest piece is his Minuet which he composed at around 6 years old, he didn't expect he will meet the death 30 years later when he was young:(

Yea 😂

You are somewhat wrong, Chopin has very beautiful compositions

@@J0h4nnSbut are they happy?

@@CATsissta ......

I was honestly terrified of Chopin’s music and the well… ya know

Campanella is in a minor key... Grand galop chromatique is better

La Campanella?

Maybe some of his gallops are better, also la campanella is not even happy

for mozart it should be piano concerto n15 III. allegro

I say Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Handel: Hallelujah, Liszt: Un Sospiro, Brahms: the same as @J0h4nnS.

Bruh is Annen-polka the Strauss most famous piece?

​@@ShadowCXC-ok4ffNo: I think his most popular piece is probably Blue Danube.

Also, I'm pretty sure Verdi's most popular isn't Brindisi: that would probably be Requiem: Dies Irae.

@@RubenJavierTovarEsparza | That's what i mean, if there's only famous pieces in this video, why does Annen-Polka appear instead of Blue Danube?

@@RubenJavierTovarEsparza I guess he wasn't in the mood to deal with dies irae MIDI , I mean who could blame him

or almost any other Mozart piece

You should check out Bizet Carillon: m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtGpgLOBsNuaZqM.html&pp=ygUOYml6ZXQgY2FyaWxsb24%3D Its even more joyful.

Turkish march is in a major, but the main theme and the middle of the development section are pretty chromatic. Its definitely not his most cheerful piece though.

@@OppenheimerDestroyerofwo-bj5ie Not actually. The sonata is in A major, but this movement specifically has A minor as its main tonality; it modulates to A major in a recurring section and in the end, but the main theme and development follows the key of A minor

I don't see how that's a problem: I know that what's considered happy is subjective. But in my opinion, not all happy pieces are major, nor are all melancholic pieces in minor. In my personal opinion, a piece in A minor is identical to C major. And the only reason why minor is associated with sadness is the composers' faults.

@@RubenJavierTovarEsparza I do disagree with you. Generally speaking, all cultures that had access to the traditional system of tonality have associated minor with sadness and major with joy, and that is not only due to the connection between them. You see, the 3rd degree of the major scale, the so-called major third, because it alone makes a chord major, is a natural component that resounds when the tonic note is played. This is called an overtone. This is also the case with the dominant note. To quickly explain it, when the tonic is played, dominant resounds first and then its mediant, or, 3rd degree. Thus, our brains are inclined to finding pleasure on the major chord, it's stable, structured, and natural. The minor chord, on the other hand, is less so, because it's 3rd degree is flattened, thus, generating a more tense and restless sound, but not as tense as a diminished chord, thus, we linked it to sadness. The same happens to scales, in which the order of tones defines whether it is sad or not. It is much like a story; we can have: "they were alone, then they were happily together" (happy) or "they were happily together, then they were alone" (sad). It is the same 2 short phrases, but the order is extremely relevant to the content of the story. I do agree with you that major keys can be sad and that minor can be happy, but this should not be taken as a rule of thumb, but rather an exception. Pieces in A minor and in C major are not the same. They use the tones and chords of their scale extremely differently, which changes everything. Not to mention some techniques that are only used in minor keys, such as the harmonic scale

​@@Henri.d.OlivoirI personally don't really agree with that very long explanation (thank you), primarily on that major 3rds and minor 3rds evoke specific feelings of happiness and sadness. The way I see it is that if scales use the same notes in the same intervals, just in different order, it doesn't really matter. I feel like it's more the composers fault that major is associated with joy and minor with sadness. For example, Alla Turca starts in A minor and then A major. But what if it becomes C major and F# minor? While I don't think such thing exists, I feel like it would be the exact same. Not to show off, but I think that myself disagreeing with you is because I have perfect pitch. Anyways, my point is that in my personal opinion, the mood of major or minor is completely subjective. Also, if sad pieces in major and happy pieces in minor are an exception, there are many, many exceptions.

Piano Sonata 16...

yes

I agree with you. I would love to see a video from this channel like this

At least he did smile in his younger portrait, poor him :'(

lacrimosa:

@@dragon6969 ok, you got a point

Lacrimosa and Dies Irae:

​@@Lisztito1811e

piano Sonata and C minor

He thinks it won't get the views he wants to make money , so he won't sadly

@@Mehrshad84 I believe it would be a good video still if it were to happen

Yes, I totally agree and it must also be the people who can play those pieces well and not totally butcher them.

@@laurelmentor404 You are here again! And indeed it's only called playing a piece if you can play it without having to think about it, that you feel technically where to be with your hands and being able to play it with expression... However a piece like Scarbo, I'm not sure if that can be played without consciousness of technical play can you?

@@Aleksandr_Skrjabin yes, that should be the definition of being able to play a piece.

Here you have... 10) Balakirev - Islamey 9) Beethoven - Hammerklavier (Piano Sonata No. 29) 8) Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit 7) Godowsky - Passacaglia in B Minor 6) Liszt - Gallop in A Minor 5) Alkan - Concerto for Solo Piano 4) Ligeti - Piano Concerto 3) Xenakis - Mists 2) Messiaen - Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus 1) Sorabji - Symphonic Variations for Piano Sorabji's Symphonic Variations are so difficult that a complete recording does not even exist, and in terms of sheer difficulty, it's pretty safe to say that this is the most difficult piano work ever written.

@@laurelmentor404 Yes, it's true, but there isn't an exact number of people who know how to play those compositions.😅

..and Brahms' would've been Lullaby from 5 Songs, Op. 49.

But happier than either of them is his 2nd simp-phony (haha gettit cause Clara anyway)

Not all of Chopin's works contain underlying melancholy😐

@@J0h4nnSexactly!!

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Brahms lullaby is a pretty happy piece.

decent ig