Happiest Composer?

Messiaen - some of his work is almost like happiness to such an extreme degree that it makes me a bit uncomfortable sometimes.

Absolutely. The Turangal

MOZART!!! ARAGH!!!! TOO......MUCH.......HAPPINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excuse me?

Two words for you: Requiem, Lacrimosa.

Excuse me?

Two words for you: Requiem, Lacrimosa.

To which I must reply with two more words:

Real, Mozart! :)

Some of Mozart's pieces are absolutely manic and happy, before he went deaf, got depressed and composed songs about death. lol.

I think you're confusing Mozart with Beethoven there.

Yeah i mixed up with beethoven. My bad, and those epic fail pictures are loving annoying.

WHAT THE-

If you're confusing composers, you're confusing more than one. Since when is Beethoven's 9th a "song about death"?

I call ignorance.

Since when is the 9th symphony all Beethoven wrote after he went deaf?

Yeah, ever heard of a requiem?

I'm not ignorant, I'm learning. You're the ignoramus here.

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.

Hmm strange I hear so much about these requiems and beethoven unless they are FOR him but not by him.

Music is so complicated haha.

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:

just shut up, at least gardener is being patient and helpful -.-

EDIT: Ok, your post is more helpful after you edited it now.

Gardener: SOME "songs" (they're pieces)

No, I mean songs. Those things where someone sings stuff. :P

P.S. Chill, everyone. No need to get into an argument over something like that.

I'm cool.

Ohhh, now there's something I don't know. Beethoven composed lieder?

Or are you referring to Fidelio?

Yes, he composed "Lieder". Quite a few. This classical type is quite different from the Romantic type since Schubert however.

nacbud, admitt it. you just got pwned.

Definitely Haydn. The happiest and funniest composer of all time

Puccini... Nessun Dorma from Turandot.

Chopin's Funeral March is hilarious. :w00t:

Chopin's Funeral March is hilarious. :w00t:

Seconded.

LOL.

Puccini... Nessun Dorma from Turandot.

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

You should look up the text.

Absolutely. The Turangal

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.