What music would you like played at your funeral?

[mahlertitan]

Andante from M6 or adagio from M5???

surely, you must've meant "Adagietto" from M5

[bhodges]

Thanks for the correction: yes, the Andante movement from the Sixth.  (Sorry, got distracted by the chorus in Peter Grimes.  )

I love the Adagietto from the Fifth, but the slow movements from Nos. 4 and 6 are my favorites. 

--Bruce

[Choo Choo]

Vivaldi Concerto Funebre RV579.  Mixes sadness and joyfulness in just the right proportions.

[Anne]

I have enjoyed this thread but it seems like it's always music for funerals.  How about music for your marriage?

[mahlertitan]

I have enjoyed this thread but it seems like it's always music for funerals.  How about music for your marriage?

that would be too easy (thinking about a certain mozart opera)

[Iago]

I have enjoyed this thread but it seems like it's always music for funerals.  How about music for your marriage?

To some people, music for a marriage would be exactly the same as music for a funeral.

[TheJoe]

Scriabin - Preparation for the Final Mystery

[Bonehelm]

Ode to Joy.

Yes, I'm that much hated.

[val]

GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT:    Rondeau "Ma fin est mon commencement". By the Hilliard Ensemble.

[BachQ]

Marche Funèbre by Cherubini

[Kullervo]

Marche Funèbre by Cherubini

A little extravagant, don't you think? The tam-tam would scare the old women.

[mahlertitan]

To some people, music for a marriage would be exactly the same as music for a funeral.

Gustav Mahler

[loudav]

I've never thought of this before, but I think I'd go with the shakuhachi piece Kokuu, if I have any say in the matter.

[Dundonnell]

The last movement of Mahler's Symphony No.2-so beautiful, tear-inducing but uplifting,

AND-if I can get away with a second bit at the cherry-

the final 'Chorus Misticus" from Liszt's Faust Symphony. Now there is a piece of music to raise the rafters!