DEATH IN CLASSICAL MUSIC: making friends with the unfriendly

Adapted from: Bach and Heaven: The Promise of Afterlife in the Text of the Cantatas by the author

Saul, oratorio, Dead March

Stabat Mater

Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major, Op. 26, in 1800–1801

Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 (Eroica)

String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810, known as Death and the Maiden (1824)

Symphonie Fantastique

Gran marcia funebre … onde onorare … Bellini

Marche funèbre in C minor, Op.72, 2