What compositions would you classify as dark?!
Question: Quite a few. I would say it starts with Machaut in the late 1300s. Bach's Fugues are often very dark. Mozart's requiem just about a billion Beethoven's works namely his seventh symphony (such a famous motive Long Short Short Long Long), Moonlight Sonata (of course), Grosse Fugue, and many many others. After that in the romantic peroid you get Chopin who's Funeral March is one of the darkest works ever, and he also has other dark works. Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastic was definatly dark at parts. Many composers in that era did "dark" woks. In the Twenith century things become intense rather than dark. I don't know that I would call Stravinsky dark, rather I would call it riveting and if that's the same to you then Stravinsky is by far the darkest composer ever. In fact most twenith century composers tryed to be intense rather than dark.
Answers: Quite a few. I would say it starts with Machaut in the late 1300s. Bach's Fugues are often very dark. Mozart's requiem just about a billion Beethoven's works namely his seventh symphony (such a famous motive Long Short Short Long Long), Moonlight Sonata (of course), Grosse Fugue, and many many others. After that in the romantic peroid you get Chopin who's Funeral March is one of the darkest works ever, and he also has other dark works. Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastic was definatly dark at parts. Many composers in that era did "dark" woks. In the Twenith century things become intense rather than dark. I don't know that I would call Stravinsky dark, rather I would call it riveting and if that's the same to you then Stravinsky is by far the darkest composer ever. In fact most twenith century composers tryed to be intense rather than dark.
Vagner- ride of the valkyries (I think that's how you spell it)
Mozart-Requiem for Mass in D Minor
John Williams- Empire March (from Star Wars)-yes it's cheezy but it's pretty darn dark
Nearly anything by George Crumb - try "Black Angels" or the "Phantom Gondolier" from Makrokosmos 1 to start.
Bela Bartok "Concerto for Orchestra" - especially the first movement
Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird, introduction with the low basses/celli - creepy!
Wagner - Siegfried's Death & Funeral March
-Carmina Burana/Carl Orff
-ANY opera by Wagner
Krzysztof Penderecki
Beeeeeeeeeeeela Bartok - I mean the man died in squalor in a slum of New York. Those last years...phew. Dark stuff.
~Lisa
basically all the Requiems are considered dark