The saddest music in the world : Georges Boulanger - Gloomy Sunday (Szomorú Vasárnap)

[mrlevina2]

Interesting name for a Romanian violinist-composer, 'Georges Boulanger'.

But you're right, d, at one point, after the pause, I thought a voice had begun to sing, and the end note is played with a kind of sigh a voice makes! You have an ear!

How did the Romanian named 'Boulanger' do that?

[SeniorCiprian]

@mrlevina2 His romanian name was George Pantazi , he was born into a gipsy ´´ lautari´´ family , in Tulcea

[willy3toes]

it's melancholy yeah but i wouldn't call it the saddest music in the world!

there's definitely sadder non vocal music out there, i say non vocal cos obviously there's tonnes of sadder songs with singing

[konstans1991]

@willy3toes give me an example of sader music please

[willy3toes]

@konstans1991 well it may seem an obvious choice but i find barber's - adagio for strings a sadder piece than this

[konstans1991]

@willy3toes yeah sure i like that one very much too, but it brings some hope up if you understand what i mean but this piece doesnt have any hopeful phrases or something like that but youre right barbers adagio is very sad and beautiful, too.

[willy3toes]

@konstans1991 actually i agree with that, this tune is sad in a more depressing and hopeless way whereas adagio is more of a beautiful sadness... it depends how you define the 'sadness' in music

i suppose i could cheat and say 'Sigur Ros - (Untitled)' because it's not a real language they sing in on that album....but even still is it any sadder? it's in the eye of the beholder i suppose

[dkurgano]

boulanger's sound is like a human voice. what an artist....

[DarkSailorStudios]

Beautiful music, prefer this to most of the rubbish being manufactured today.

[gudlii]

go and play the saddest zombie. a flash game there is really sad music in that game

[adamjenson4500]

adagio for strings is the saddest music ever written!

[exile4eva]

8 people were depressed or feeling gloomy before they watched this.

[directorlog]

Interesting music, I like it.

[SteauaBucuresti]

This is hungarian soul, spoken by an Romanian.

[Bl00dyStrike]

I read from somewhere that some of the story of the people who killed themselves after hearing this song are urban myth as the composer committed sulcide himself just enchanted it

[Se7enBeatleofDoom]

Happy happy joy joy happy happy joy joy!!!!

[pondeflouers]

Эту музыку использовал Спилберг в "Списке Шиндлера"

[punkpoetry]

@pondeflouers

so what?

[TasteyCrayola]

I've heard wayyy sadder pieces:

/watch?v=XLK5OWU2YGw

Puts this song to shame!

[hotelmario510]

Nope, not working on me. Not sad imo.

[Smalltowngal29]

Tragically beautiful. Melancholy, yes, but it's a very fine piece of artistic music.

[LeanderEve]

this version is great, it captures all the sadness, all the lack of mirth...

[11011011011100110]

saddest. I ike it.



[DietrichMarlena]

Szomorú zene..... Milyen szomorú..............

[jamybrainy]

That's it! I'm committing suicide! :P

Awesome melody!

[Sn1p3rSh4wn]

BRB need to suicide

[dilibau]

this is definitely NOT the saddest music in the world...try Balada by Ciprian Porumbescu instead and try then to see if you can hold your tears

[dredlew]

0:45 is the saddest

[mycokerulesyayD]

Szomorú Vasárnap....

[RickyFitz]

don't exaggerate. This is so theatrical, it won't kill anybody. Nice melody anyway.

[invalidacess]

out of all the versions ive heard. this one speaks out. i can feel it talking to me.good piece of artwork here.

[matzatzou]

GEORGE BOULANGER IS ROMANIAN!

[Aly758]

and it just happen to be sunday.....

[luisleigh]

Does somenone know which movie is shown at 00:20?

[smarfang]

god when u told me if ur felling sad u should not watch this u were right :(

[BalaclavaReturns]

sad and beautiful.

i have the rezso seres version in mp3 format on my computer.

[psybunny1]

@BalaclavaReturns Hey..can I ask where you got the Rezso Seress MP3 from?? I keep coming up with "this is defiantly the original" but turns out to be another cover..go figure..

[459837594]

this is beautiful, thank you

[suffix66]

the kronos quartet one was good but this takes the cake.

[majjuri]

"saddest music"?? Maybe it is the kitschiest sad song, but hardly the saddest.

[emokid0100]

AAAAAAAAAAAALL of emo's life?

knuck knuck knuck!

[brennanaman1]

i dropped my biscuit on the floor..that was sadder than this

[majjuri]

@brennanaman1 Good comparison! :)

[BrunoTraceur]

Oh shit!!

Why I dont discover this song before!!??

I can kill all Emo's life in the path of world !!

[OmegaShenron6574]

why can't people just watch these without commenting on the legend. its a beautiful piece of music and that should be enough.

[rassouldiop]

you´re soooo damn right! big ups from the good old germany!

[OmegaShenron6574]

@rassouldiop thanks

[MissRubberBunny]

@OmegaShenron6574 so very true, although I would go even further & describe the music as heavenly

[ecsist4you]

listen to bliss - epilogue ... that's sad and beautiful

[stefalbert]

Give me a whole bottle uppers now please.......

[sovietmarxist]

It's just an urban legend.

[deansmithisgreat]

i listen to this right before i run the 100 m

[Jamesmartens55]

its not about the song itself, its obviously about the internal suffering of the individual, this song is just powerful enough to have the individual reflect on previous strife which may just be enough to push him or her over the edge....literally

[Herold38]

In Deutschland hieß der Titel "Trauriger Sonntag". Er wurde am 26.03.1936 von Georges Boulanger in Berlin aufgenommen und auf Odeon O-25741 veröffentlicht.

Die Rückseite ist "Schwarze Augen", russische Zigeuner-Romanze (Matrize Be 11300). Die anderen Angaben sind gleich.

[11011011011100110]

Hi i collect the versions of Szomorú Vasárnap Triste Domingo Trauriger Sonntag ... But its new thanx. If you want some versions or a translate of the original Hungarian version (im a Hungarian) just write me. HAL

[soulblade29]

odabasz ez a DAL!

[HUNVilly]

Miért nem lepődök meg azon, hogy a legszomorúbb dal a világon magyar?

[kllswitch696]

honestly i dont think thats that depressing... if u want to see a depressing vido watch concrete angel by martina mcbride

[biollante]

Pfft, i let my children listen to that

[NZdodobird]

kllswitch696

You are right. Concrete Angel is horribly depressing. I had to come back to Gloomy Sunday to cheer up.

[kaoin018]

it is indeed a depressing song!!!!

[Da13lackman101]

That was really depressing and I also believe that mad world is very depressing

[BussyboyPerth]

Great selection of images to go along with this. Shame about the dirty audio but we can't expect 78's to last forever!

[didoupiaf]

What is the name of this film?

[hopstop3721]

ya, maybe Im not depressed because I dont find this song THAT sad.  Iv heard sadder. like the music in "Terms of Endearment" ugh i cant even hear the first 3 notes without tearing up

[youidiot89076]

in a way i think mad world is sorta sad

[trubloodfan1809]

Lets get down to brass tacks:

Depressed?

Lonely?

Just all round not normal?

ok children (sorry nothing against you) Are we watching it over and over? ok thats when its bad oh and no your not gonna kill youself but....art is pain if you know it good but really figure the rest out.

[Scarceyo]

in english?

[geraldineamercuri]

Una canción triste : "I collect coins" de Mercury Rev

[c00kiec00kiec00kie]

It's not "sad" it is just scary (:

[danieljamespybus]

i dont see wots sad about it

[Miss1storymaker11]

not sad i`m afraid

[kismukkk]

A lot of people don't find this depressing, and I understand them.. Whitout the lyrics it isn't really sad.. For most of you, who don't speak hungarian it wouldn't be depressing with the lyrics.. but check this girl out: /watch?v=LZZlvHPO2T4 , and you will see what this song means to a hungarian.

[Davemester]

hu szerintem minden csak a póka angéla verziója nem mutatja, h milyen jó is ez a szám. szerintem

[kismukkk]

hát azt próbáltam megmutatni, h lássák hogy mély érzelmek vannak a számban.. és az angéla verziója - még ha nem is mindenki szereti - prezentálja, h mennyire átérezhető, mert rajta látszik h átérzi amit énekel .

[Jokaanan]

Erm...I was feeling suicidal right now and that song didn't affect me at all. *coughs awkwardly* It's certainly dramatic, and I'm sure a lot of people have found it sad enough to choose as their suicide song, but it's not quite depressing. In fact, it got me OUT of that mood.

If any music deserves the title of "saddest", I think it could be something by Wagner, or Schubert. But not this.

[rickwyles]

this isnt even that sad

[losergeekbeauty]

will you really kill yourself? dont life is worth living theres times when i dont believe it but life is beautiful just try to live theres people who love you wont be able to get thrugh a day withuoght guilt and pain

please dont do it

[sebreathnach]

And it wasn't just that the Christian was pitted against the world, but Gloomy Sunday came after gay Saturday (of markets and secular life). Sunday, as your film shows, thrust the Christian exclusively into the lifeless, sepulchral world of the clergy... The world of no secular hope!

[sebreathnach]

Sunday is when the Christian is pitted against the weltanschaung of the Church bells. I recall the mood... The men went to the pub and periodically a woman would throw herself into the river Barrow! Being off school made Suday welcome... but I recall the mood. It was dire!

[vikulam]

its not an urban legend. People did commit suicide to hits song.Mainly in Hungary where the Composer Seress Rezső lived. He also commited suicide. It's really a sad peice of art

[Christen180]

i don't mean this in a horrible way but this song isn't very sad. it's actually quite boring. i apologise of this comment has offended anyone

[woly265]

it's arlight i feel the same, i youtubed this expecting much mroe.

[yowzakid1335]

yh and me

[holdelew]

that was such an amazingly beautiful song i love it

[harrietcraig]

How morbid yet beautiful. Thanks for posting. This brings to mind an old Charles Addam's cartoon. Morticia and Gomez Addams are on the sofa in a dark depressing room with an empty fireplace. Morticia clutches Gomez's arm and whispers "Are you unhappy, darling?"

"Oh, yes, yes! Completely." he replies.

[MEli556]

no trueblood/gloomy sunday fan should kill themself =)

[adysax0165]

Intr-adevar un mare muzician si compozitor roman,George Boulanger.

[janine345]

saddest music or saddest video//????

[LourdesGerrard]

both man!!

[rianavi]

Where do you have this? It is just perfect!

How can one obtain more of original work? (Boulanger?, music, movie?)

Thanks in advance

[cattleman6420012000]

This is so moving. Exquisite!!

[ajdukujac]

absolutley wonderful! thank you so much for this..

[cushing1163]

Danke Erwin für diese berührende Version von "Einsamer Sonntag". Besser nicht in trauriger Stimmung anhören, sonst ein ergreifender Titel!

[ericlebeau]

merci erwin pour cette vidéo où je peux voir zarah leander une fois de plus

[Leotaurus1975]

Avec plaisir! Elle apparaît aussi dans la vidéo "Mein Herz weint"...

[stmkgraz]

ACHTUNG! Wunderschön, aber besser nicht anhören, wenn man ganz unzen ist!!

[Leotaurus1975]

Indeed! However, I'll try to make my next ones more optimistic, lol.

[kirillovec]

@Leotaurus1975

Camerade, who is , with the candle,in the 3rd episode?

'seems so, this episode with candle and lampde, is relatively NOT SAD

simply, it is a part of any prayer -- you may see, the insignum of cross is Orthodox Christian , as practiced in the Orthodox Churches of Russia, Greek Lands, Serbia, Bulgaria , Romania

[slpuca]

Applicable in a real blue monday,your posting is delightfully depressing but very well made.