What is the most annoying classical music?

Earworms: Top 10 irritating classical compositions

  • Stravinsky: Firebird Suite, Danse Infernale.
  • I remember playing it (quite shockingly) in school orchestra.
  • Smetana: Slavonic Dances, Op.72.
  • Smetana’s dances are far too boisterous for their own good.
  • Handel: Messiah, Hallelujah.

What is the scariest piece of classical music?

The 20 scariest pieces of classical music

  1. Edvard Grieg – In The Hall Of The Mountain King.
  2. Camille Saint-Saëns – Danse Macabre.
  3. John Williams – Jaws.
  4. Modest Mussorgsky – A Night on the Bare Mountain.
  5. Maurice Jarre – Ghost.
  6. Hector Berlioz – Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath from Symphonie Fantastique.
  7. 7. Bernard Herrmann – Psycho.

What type of classical music is used in drama?

Opera
Opera is a form of drama — musical drama. So the music is of course heard, and judged, according to how it conveys the drama. By all means go to the major opera houses and hear big, grand operas. But the smaller-is-better trend has been going on in opera as well.

What is the loudest symphony?

Top Five Loudest Compositions

  1. Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.
  2. Ligeti’s The Devil’s Staircase.
  3. Mahler’s Symphony No.
  4. Holst’s The Planets “Mars, The Bringer of War”
  5. Rouse’s Requiem.

Did Nietzsche write music?

Despite finding most of his influence in philosophy and philology, Friedrich Nietzsche also composed several works for voice, piano and violin. Surprised? Fear not: Nietzsche’s compositions might come as a revelation to even the most clued-up classical music geeks.

Who wrote the darkest classical music?

Some of the darkest/heaviest pieces of classical music.

  • Dmitri Shostakovich. String Quartet No 8, in C Minor, Op.
  • Béla Bartók.
  • Mahler.
  • Penderecki.
  • Scriabin.
  • Lorin Maazel.
  • Wagner.
  • Schnittke.