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Ummm... I've never heard of a Requiem composed by Beethoven. Looks like you made a mixture of Beethoven and Mozart there. Or do you mean the Missa solemnis (which isn't really a Requiem)?

That being said, Beethoven -did- write songs that were (amongst other topics) about death in his late years. No Requiem though, as far as I know.

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Double fail.

Gardener: Exactly: SOME "songs" (they're pieces). Mr. Nacnud's statement there implied that most (if not all) the compositions were about death. There's many awesomely happy compositions by Beethoven as he was getting and after he got deaf.

Furthermore, I'm doing my job as a n00b basher. :toothygrin:

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Puccini... Nessun Dorma from Turandot.

I don't see that as being happy...

You should look up the text.

Nothing particularly "unhappy" about Nessun Dorma...

It's actually quite life-affirming.

Calaf declares that "none shall sleep in Beijing this night" and he alone will tell his name to Turandot, at the dawn, by placing his name on her lips himself.

Rather lovely, actually. Very romantic.

Obviously, if you only look at the lyrics sung by the chorus... "oy, we can't sleep, oy veh! we're all going to die, what a world, what a world, oh the humanity..." then, yeah, not TOO happy.

But the gist of Calaf's aria is rather joyful.

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