Classical Composers and their MOST TERRIFYING Pieces

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Enjoy this video showing the 10 most terrifying classical music pieces selected by personal choice!
0:00 Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, 1700-1750
0:54 Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, II. Summer - Storm, 1716-1725
1:43 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem in D minor, K.626, III. Sequenz, I. Dies irae, 1791
2:14 Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.5, Op.67, I. Allegro con brio, 1804-1808
2:41 Franz Schubert - Erlkönig, D.328, 1815
3:21 Frédéric Chopin - Étude Op.10, No.12 in C minor 'Revolutionary', 1831
3:57 Franz Liszt - Totentanz, S.126, 1849
4:26 Giuseppe Verdi - Requiem, II. Sequence - Dies irae, 1874
5:00 Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No.9, Op.95, IV. Allegro con fuoco, 1893
6:10 Sergei Rachmaninoff - Etudes-tableaux, Op.39, VI. Little Red Riding Hood, 1916-1917
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Title: Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 8, No. 2, RV. 315 "Summer" for Solo Piano
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Title: W. A. Mozart - "Dies Irae" (Piano arr. by Karl Klindworth)
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Title: Dvořák - Symphony No. 9, Op. 95, Movement IV, for Piano, Four Hands
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[@IdentifiantE.S]

Thanks thats really cool !

[@GregStewartecosmology]

I have added a BadAss vocal cover to this in my channel

[@christianweatherbroadcasting]

Repent and trust in Jesus. We all deserve Hell for our sins, such as lying lusting coveting and more. We can't save ourselves, but Jesus can save us. He died on the cross to save us for our sins and rose from the grave defeating death and Hell. You must put your faith in him only. He is the only way to Heaven. Repent and trust in Jesus. Romans 6:23 John 3:16❤😊

[@Doctor_Moriarty_]

Alternate Title: Classical Composers Writing Boss Themes

[@keatonburton5636]

*How dare you not include Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain! BLASPHEMY!!!*

[@GM-kh4tu]

Their pieces are both terrifying in "How can I manage to grow 15 more fingers?" and "Their atmosphere is something else". Good selection, dude!

[@proraa2611]

It's for two

[@MarcoReus1109]

Franz Liszt laughing in the corner:

[@umanathshetty7232]

They can be played by three or more pianist or one Liszt

[@Name-bm2bg]

​@@umanathshetty7232or one Rachmaninoff

[@christianweatherbroadcasting]

Repent and trust in Jesus. We all deserve Hell for our sins, such as lying lusting coveting and more. We can't save ourselves, but Jesus can save us. He died on the cross to save us for our sins and rose from the grave defeating death and Hell. You must put your faith in him only. He is the only way to Heaven. Repent and trust in Jesus. Romans 6:23 John 3:16❤😊❤

[@sophiegonzales2615]

Psychologist: black metal Liszt is not real it can't hurt you Black metal Liszt:

[@eliaswenger9515]

He looked like he could be in Carach Angren😂

[@donimagalhaes]

É o Death

[@joshtheviolinist]

As a violinist, i can confirm Erklonig is also very, if not more terrifying on violin

[@IEEMAZ_Convoluted_14.2.8.5]

Indeed

[@christianweatherbroadcasting]

Repent and trust in Jesus. We all deserve Hell for our sins, such as lying lusting coveting and more. We can't save ourselves, but Jesus can save us. He died on the cross to save us for our sins and rose from the grave defeating death and Hell. You must put your faith in him only. He is the only way to Heaven. Repent and trust in Jesus. Romans 6:23 John 3:16

[@art_in_ashes]

YES 🙌 the VIOLIN VERSION is HARD

[@Qorable]

Ernst 💀

[@areloTET]

The most terrifying part about Mozart's Requiem is the fact that he died before completing it.

[@apathytowards]

this is absolutely normal among composers

[@chironchiron5053]

@@apathytowardsyou don’t get what he means. The requiem served as a lament and a funeral song. Mozart died before finishing it

[@user-hb2mo8sy4l]

​@@chironchiron5053 wow really that's kinda sad, I feel bad for mozart when he died composing it!😢

[@user-up5fp8nh9g]

Did Mozart finish it after?

[@chironchiron5053]

@@user-up5fp8nh9g bro he died before completing it

[@pulsar2049]

Seeing Rachmaninov as a werewolf is definitely something that I never expected.

[@ethanbrownpiano]

5:02 Huh who knew Dvorak wrote the music for Jaws.

[@dannythemadmango488]

This is mostly true! However, John Williams certainly didn't fully steal it but he probably took inspiration

[@laurelmentor404]

@@dannythemadmango488 Yes, John Williams only borrowed the first few notes. The New World symphony isn't actually terrifying aside from the first part being associated with Jaws.

[@gadaboutgriffon4446]

@@laurelmentor404indeed. I get a sense of a hero’s uprising from it.

[@Henri.d.Olivoir]

Chopin's 4th movement of his Sonata No. 2 is absolutely 💀

[@angelaknebel4156]

Yes, it's astonishing, deeply unsettling, and as though Chopin wrote it one hundred years later!!! 🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🙂🙂🙂🤗🤗

[@Henri.d.Olivoir]

@@angelaknebel4156 You are right in every single point you made!

[@oritdrimer4354]

Schumann's 2nd piano sonata, Liszt's Totentanz, Scriabin's Mysterium and Shostakovich's 8th string quartet are also very frightening (and I absolutely love it)

[@Mehrshad84]

I mean he mentioned totentanz in the video🤨

[@nero9616]

@@Mehrshad84 Yeah he do :)

[@user-zb1ps3iv9m]

You are right

[@pangli2918]

I think Chopin's Prelude No.24 ,Rachmaninoff's symphony No.1 4th movement would be there.

[@Mehrshad84]

@@pangli2918 or chopin second sonata finale

[@crest-bel888]

In the hall of the mountain king and Flying Walcyryes left the chat...

[@LISZT-]

glad to see dvořák here :D

[@NightRain1205]

I love classical music! It helps me relax and make all of my thoughts go away.

[@Sergei_Rachmaninoff]

Rachmanninof is not classical

[@Lisztito1811]

How are those pieces relaxing?

[@bicillenium4019]

@@Lisztito1811It’s meant to be sarcastic

[@ecstasy-8957]

Love this! The way you chose that kind of portraits for each composer is breathtaking. Good video fr

[@pablodesarasate499]

I think that Chopin's prelude in A minor is more terrifying than the revolutionary etude.

[@kairon5249]

its more melancholic and depressing then terrifying. I guess it sounds unsettling, but I think it sounds like a representation of depression.

[@Theonydid37]

Chopin prelude no 2 in a minor is the darkest and creepiest piece ever by Chopin pls have listen

[@befu05]

this is such a good and epic video, you managed to deliver the terrifying atmosphere perfectly! :o

[@YourLocalVolvoB8LandBYDGreen]

0:00 The morning school alarm will never get old :) 8.1/10 0:54 No way Vivaldi could be a modern girl😳 8.9/10 1:43 Mozart's final work in 1791 9.8/10 2:14 The morning school alarm will never get old :) (Pt2) 7/10 2:41 Wow,just wow 9.9/10 3:21 'F*

[@laurelmentor404]

Werewolf Rachmaninoff looks like Remus Lupin from Harry Potter 😂

[@jessicachiu5953]

why is Schubert and Chopin look so vampire here 😂😂(?? and Liszt looks like some guy from a heavy metal band🤭(??? and I almost thought Schubert won't be on the list but I forgot he have Erlkönig😂😂

[@MasterTiles08]

Heavy Metal Liszt doesn't exist, he can't hurt you. Heavy Metal Liszt:

[@arthurveronesefreire84]

It's true! 🤭

[@geraldojorgedalmaschio9648]

And Rachmaninoff a werewolf.

[@lanhuongnguyenthi8311]

Bach : Storm pirate Vivaldi : Godness of Flame Mozart : King of Hurricane , storm , tornado Beethoven : Face his wrath now of else Schubert : Vamps Chopin : Devil of red ( bc he doesn’t camouflage like schubert ) Liszt : Metal Black Verdi : Demon of Lava Cris Dvorak : Angel of Darkness Rachmaninoff : Wolfman ( werewolf is the king of wolf , wolfman is half human half wolf )

[@geraldojorgedalmaschio9648]

@@lanhuongnguyenthi8311 Debussy as a Dorian Gray?

[@goktugblack]

Chopin's most terrifying piece piece would be the 4th movement of his 2nd piano sonata, Op. 35.. Not even a discussion. Actually the first and third movements are also pretty gloomy.

[@mariangeladagati5260]

Yeah! I would also dare to add the 4th ballade's coda and nocturne 48 no 1's transition from the middle section to the doppio movimento.

[@goktugblack]

Nah that 48-1 nocturne transition is glorious and romantic!! I wouldnt describe it as "terrifying"@@mariangeladagati5260

[@TrainedCreeper]

similarly, Bach has other, more terrifying pieces. The opening from St. John's passion comes to mind

[@aryangupta8093]

imagine chopin and liszt actually looking like vampires irl

[@DelPrado0801]

i saw "MOST TERRIFYING" and i sat, waited for Der Erlkonig, i was satisfied.

[@art_in_ashes]

YES

[@chrisyoung6190]

That was amazing! Nice selections.

[@orchardhouse9241]

Thnk you. I was waiting for Erlkonig and Totentanz.

[@letters_from_paradise]

The New World Symphony is a masterpiece, it almost reminds me of Jurassic Park when it comes to that feeling of unveiling true aw

[@corinakiss7935]

Sehr schön gespielt!!!🎵🎵🎵👏👏👏👏🎹

[@arturosandovalsaito2704]

As much as I agree with all the pieces, you should’ve included “Night on Bald Mountain”, by Modest Mussorgsky. I don’t know if you ever watched “Fantasia”, but that piece is haunting. 💀

[@modestmussorgsky4161]

Thanks, bro!

[@arturosandovalsaito2704]

​@@modestmussorgsky4161No problem! 👍

[@mastershake8018]

5:12 Is that how fast he would actually do that in concert? Goddamn.

[@wenyu7779]

Nah it’s not an actual piano piece. Just an arrangement of a symphony.

[@cosy_cuddlez]

I was too scared to hear Schubert's piece, I shut off the video. THIS WAS TOO HORRIFYING! I can't believe this but I felt a short pinch in my heart.

[@SleepySTEIN-103]

I love all these pieces.... Had no idea they were this insane on the piano.... My respects to all pianists out there❤❤❤❤ thanks for the vid... Love how all the art has this dark brooding look to them that just adds to the songs mystery

[@OctaZR1434]

Nice edit to the composers faces😊😊😂

[@camilluskatsav6222]

Super great channel and amazing pianists

[@jarekwrzosek2048]

Revolutionary Etiude for Chopin? I mean it is dramatic and furious, bt not really that Scary. Funeral March would be a better choice, while more subdued, it is quite creepy and forboding. Much more scary than the Etiude. Also, some suggestions for part 2: Mozart: Il Commendatore's Aria (Don Giovanni, A Cenar Teco...) from Don Giovanni Tartini: Devil's Trill Sonata Chopin: Funeral March Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, March to the Scaffold Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre Musorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain (Or Any of the following from Pictures at the Exhibition: Gnomus, Cathacombs, Cum Mortus in Lingua Mortui, or Baba Yaga). Stravinsky: Rite of Spring Holst: Mars, Saturn or Neptune from The Planets Suite. Prokofiev: Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet. Orff: O Fortuna from Carmina Burana.

[@kairon5249]

for chpoin it would be his prelude no 2 in a minor.

[@J0h4nnS]

Missing Edvard Grieg with his composition In the Hall of the Mountain King and Isaac Albeniz with Asturias

[@laurelmentor404]

How is Asturias terrifying? Maybe if you are a classical guitarist and you have to learn it?

[@art_in_ashes]

Asturias IS terrifying as a pianist because of the jumps i guess? That was the hardest part when i was learning it

[@katttttt]

Vivaldi didn't live like 9 years, he lived from 1678-1741! 1:25

[@renc2002]

Surprised you didn't include Camille Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre.

[@oliverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr4162]

5:12 hands would fall in this part

[@richie6337]

Why does Liszt look like a member of Metallica?

[@angelicart.6]

AHAHHAHAHAHAHHHA

[@laurelmentor404]

Maybe Liszt is one of the composers who actually invented metal. No, actually, that would be like Rameau or Vivaldi. Harpsichord is definitely the OG metal instrument.

[@orendungan3455]

Love the whole 'Duke of Hell' look you gave my boy Schubert. His 8th would be right at home on this list. Also: You could put up anything at all by Prokofiev. Or do a whole list of just Prokofiev.

[@aaronmays4355]

This is awesome!!!

[@korzhynizadban5527]

I miss Dvorak's Dies Irae, from his Requiem. Would you ever add it?

[@JershonStudios]

These pictures though...

[@malcolmabram2957]

Superbly made video. Thank you. I know a fair number of these pieces well, and terrifying does not not come to mind. But then even Dracula runs away from me. However, one really scary piece, is not classical, but a theme in the movie the Forbidden Planet 1956. My kids and I watched it, and when the theme came on, they , especially my daughter, got really scared.

[@FrancescoAnselmi-sn2du]

Soundtracks are classical, unless they are not classical

[@1987nightrap]

So thats where diamond head got that riff

[@vovabelchenko4632]

Talking about Bach, Tocatta and Fugue in D minor is quite trivial choice for “most terrifying piece”. If some is interested, lookup BWV 546 or BWV 245 part 1.

[@jeanpaulsinatra]

Man it's been ages since I've seen someone boss Through the Fire and the Flames on expert mode

[@Random.pianist]

The piano sounds realistic, which vst did you use please ?

[@SophieLeung-du9we]

Love all of them❤

[@J0h4nnS]

Vivaldi is like a little paunchy in the image that appears.

[@Death_Wish]

I would argue that Vivaldi’s winter is a much more terrifying piece than summer.

[@InfiniteChudsdom]

Bach looks like he’s telling me to do something to myself

[@purgeutopia8696]

New World Symphony will always make me think of fighting a bearded demi god that loves fighting and uses a sword with a blade so long it go through the whole planet.

[@woodymcsackschwei5619]

No way winter wind is not chopins scariest piece

[@Sallorin]

he made death march soooo

[@woodymcsackschwei5619]

@@Sallorin just because it has death in its name doesnt make it terrifying

[@laurelmentor404]

I totally agree. Revolutionary Etude is actually pretty dark and scary thematically, but Winter Wind is more of a jump scare.

[@lisztomaniac2718]

2nd sonata, 4th movement or his 2nd prelude

[@medicropper]

A history of rock and roll: mid 1700s- early 1900s

[@Thaumh]

Any time I hear Rachmaninov's "Little Red Riding Hood" piece, I hear in my mind "Into The Woods" Wolf singing, *♫Hello little girl! What's, your hurry?♪* Yes, I know that melodically they are not similar, but the connotations of the subject is what pings me.

[@Charsept]

This is just a really nice medley.

[@user-br6pd7ib5q]

I never knew "Dracula's theme song" Toccata and Fugue In D Minor was made by J.S. Bach

[@user-zb1ps3iv9m]

Guys mozart is insane he is my third favorite pianist and chopin my 2nd favorite pianist and beethoven the best one

[@cheezeguyLOZ]

Night on bald mountain - mussorgsky Firebird - stravinsky

[@AltoOru]

I think what the BWV 1052 “adagio” by Bach, is more terrifying than toccata and fugue🤌🏻

[@FrancescoAnselmi-sn2du]

The passacaglia in c minor is the darkest piece of Bach

[@armandor.calderong.9135]

I love the portraits.

[@IEEMAZ_Convoluted_14.2.8.5]

Appasionata 1st or third movement is scarier for a piece Beethoven

[@matiassanchez1679]

We have Verdi and Mozart's Dies Irae, but also the original melody of the dies irae chant is used in Liszt's totentaz

[@asthagupta7699]

Next: Famous composers and their funniest pieces

[@REM_4_ik]

It is the most overplayed pieces, because in some variants there is more terrifying

[@ethankajfosz5912]

The only thing that makes these compositions terrifying (at least for a large chunk of them) is how hard they are to play. 😯😯

[@Dionysion]

In my opinion, Modest Mussorgsky's Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle is the heaviest piano piece ever and Pictures at an Exhibition has a few other numbers that are harder than any of the pieces in this list.

[@kerryannboyko4175]

Who painted the composers? I'd love to see more of their work.

[@rinzevant6120]

Where’s Night on Bald Mountain?

[@ShadowCXC-ok4ff]

WOW, i have no words to describe how that Dies Irae was

[@anticoolkid67]

The way you painted them ☠

[@Maureenwooten]

Nice project 😉😉😉😃😃🧐🧐🧐🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻✌🏻

[@dannydaniels3784]

I see no Prelude C# i cant give a like..

[@WalterWild-uu1td]

I get close to carpal tunnel syndrome just playing video games on an 18" by 6" computer keyboard. How dis these brilliant men managed not to die of arthritis playing these pieces on concert pianos? The keys alone are four feet long. The actual keyboards are 54 to 58 inches wide. And they have to use their feet at the same time both hands are hammering out the keys! It's almost heroic.

[@nobodywilleverknow8371]

For Beethoven Sonata 14 movement 3 would have been a better pick, it carries the same dark vibe while being much harder to play. 5th symphony has it's hard passages as well, but they come much later in the piece and are mostly not in dark in the more uplift portions of the symphony like movement 4 or the trio part of movement 3. And for chopin I would have picked the winterwind etude instead, but I'm biased there since I'm currently learning that one myself, both work. xD

[@darkstarmoonshadow8892]

The first one was mainly written for the church, but is commonly used durring halloween

[@Sallorin]

I mean Chopin litteraly made death march

[@laurelmentor404]

It's more dark and tragic than scary I think but also a good example.

[@garryholmes7757]

Bro is ode to joy better than symphony no 5

[@MrShelley38]

Faltaram peças de Berlioz, mestre do sobrenatural!

[@ThrasherMan]

Dude, you gotta do Ravel's Scarbo!

[@cmart020]

I just started leaning piano at 51 years of age... I come and see the notes falling for Dvorak and realize that I now need at least 15 fingers to play the piece! Gee! 😛

[@TITAN1UM87]

No thats not true, You can easily find piano solo arrangement even easy piano solo arrangement there are alot of ways people can arrange symphonic pieces

[@J0h4nnS]

Verdi's Dies Irae sounds like music from an old video game.

[@VI-ck2eo]

Listen to the original one, it’s absolutely terrifying, specially with the lyrics

[@crest-bel888]

Toccata and fugue D minor Horrifying - 9/10 Summer - Storm Horrifying - 4/10 Dies Irae Horrifying - 6/10 Symphony No5 Horrifying - 10/10 Erlkőnig Horrifying - 8/10 Revolutionary Etude Horrifying - 7/10 Totentaz Horrifying - 11/10 Requiem ||. Sequence Horrifying - 5/10 New World Symphony Horrifying - 7,5/10 Etude-tableaux Horrifying - 8,5/10

[@Dolmangss]

the illusts tho

[@valentinbouchard125]

You could have added things like: Berlioz, Dies Irae from Symphonie Fantastique Saint-Saëns, Danse Macabre Mussorgsky, Night on the Bald Mountain Shostakovich, Babi Yar 1st mvt And others...

[@user-yl8bu9qu7y]

These AI-generated pictures.... Bach looks like Meat Loaf! I'm dying...😂

[@Mehrshad84]

Beethoven appasionata first movement is not scary , but real dark , or alkan's mad woman on the seashore , to me the most frightening piano piece ever written

[@KingdomHeartsBrawler]

Everything about Alkan's piece is... off. It's not scary in an outright way so much as it uncanny and haunting.

[@gmfrunzik]

Chopins is definitely his second ballade

[@subtomynewchannelpls]

Nah I say hammerklavier sonata > symphony no.5

[@jackychan7758]

When did Rachmainoff discovered filter

[@orangelake2268]

Bach reminding me of Mad Eye Moody

[@mykonos466]

I'd contest that Rach's Isle of the Dead is more terrifying. Prelude in C Sharp Minor is another one if not Isle of the Dead

[@butcherofblaviken327]

Dvorak had me in mad chills

[@niumefetnando]

Me : u can play all of these..just one tiny problem.. My fingers are too short

[@ericsonquito506]

it's good in organ instrument toccata and fugue

[@ahmadalmasarani523]

LIKE THE PORTRAITS

[@vikizaruko6081]

If somebody makes game with hahaha that composers As Bosses with that Music Im gonna play it

[@desireemontalvo-dobao3411]

I guess im not the only person who finds beethovens 5th nightmare feul. Those 8 notes have scarred me ever since i was child. The only version that dosent scare me is the baby einstein version.

[@davidevolquez5597]

Toccata and fuegue in the minor

[@aceangel5891]

4:33 AINT NO WAY THAT’S POSSIBLE

[@AurioG-dd5bv]

Hey bro toccata and fugue by bach he composed it in 1707